Atrios links to a great old David Halberstam piece about the White Citizen Councils that Haley Barbour is so fond of.
The remarkable thing about the article: it appeared in Commentary magazine, which nowadays is filled with neocon gibberish. It is very difficult to imagine a piece of this quality appearing in the magazine today (just to get this out of the way: yes, the Barbour quote about White Citizen Councils is in the Weekly Standard, but the piece hardly condemns Barbour for it).
It’s sad to see how many institutions conservatives have run into the ground.