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Clyde N. Wilson is a Distinguished Professor of history at the University of South Carolina, USA, a paleoconservative political commentator, a long-time contributing editor for Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture and Southern Partisan magazine, and an occasional contributor to National Review. Wilson is best known for his expertise on the life and writings of John C. Calhoun, having recently compiled all his papers in twenty-eight volumes. He is the M.E. Bradford Distinguished Chair of the Abbeville Institute, an adjunct faculty member of the libertarian Ludwig von Mises Institute, and an affiliated scholar of the League of the South Institute, the research arm of the League of the South.

In 1994 Wilson was an original founder of the League of the South and the Southern Poverty Law Center has listed Wilson among the "ideologues" of the Neo-Confederate movement, claiming 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."

Speaking of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Wilson noted:

Remember that since 1965 our elections have been controlled by commissars from the U.S. Justice Department – an oppression carried by the votes (several times repeated) of "conservative" Republicans. One of the highest comedic points of 20th century American politics came in the mid-sixties when the windbag Republican leader, Senator Dirksen of Illinois, announced his support for the second Reconstruction of the South. It seems that during a lonely midnight stroll in the deserted Capitol, the ghost of Abraham Lincoln appeared to the Senator and instructed him how to vote.

External links

• Clyde N. Wilson, USC faculty website.
• Clyde Wilson Article Archives on LewRockwell.com.

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