The Southern Poverty Law Center has listed Fleming as a key intellectual in what it calls the "neo-Confederate" movement. In a 2002 article on the paleoconservative trend in right wing politics, the SPLC stated: "While mainstream neo-conservatives are tight with the GOP, so-called paleocon intellectuals have carved a niche for themselves as staunch, old-right traditionalists who romanticize the pre-civil rights era South. Fleming, who is "Chronicles"' editor, has gone so far as to describe the 19th century Ku Klux Klan as a 'national liberation army.