It was proposed as a response to the court decisions allowing women into Virginia Military Institute (VMI) and The Citadel.
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has labeled it a neoconfederate group.
Guthrie has been criticized by the national media and the SPLC for being a former member of the League of the South and for having promoted the school at a convention of the Council of Conservative Citizens.
It was once planned to be built in Shelbyville, Tennessee, but the proponents were not able to raise sufficient funds to purchase the property.
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