The Southern Poverty Law Center has listed Wilson among the "ideologues" of the neo-Confederate movement, stating that he told "Gentleman's Quarterly" in 1998 that "We don't want the federal government telling us what to do, pushing integration down our throats... We're tired of carpetbagging professionals coming to our campuses and teaching that the South is a cultural wasteland." Condemning what he perceives as a positive representation of people of color in the media, Wilson lamented that the "established forces of 'American' society have been promoting the glory of the non-white and the foreign for two generations now."