Haley Barbour, former chairman of the Republican National Committee, is running for governor in Mississippi, and there is a good chance that he will win.

On July 19, Barbour attended a barbeque put on by the
Council of Conservative Citizens, and far right-wing organization that formed from the old White Citizens' Councils of the 50's and 60's. A photo of the barbeque appears on the CCC's website, and there is Barbour, plain as day, standing among his fellow Conservative Citizens.

The website is nauseating. Racism is openly defended, and women are attacked for doing anything that doesn't involve staying home with children. Feminism is skewered, as is Martin Luther King Day. Barbour was asked to have the photo removed, but he refused.

Obviously, the people of Mississippi are not offended by Barbour's association with those who despise women and people of color, just as the people of California were not offended by a candidate known for humiliating and assaulting women.