A number of Conservative authors have been selling an odd view of the Civil Rights movement in this country, especially the gains made by blacks in the sixties. They give an awful lot of credit to Republicans for liberating minorities and saving them from those danged racist Democrats. It's true there were racist Democrats but I sure remember them as atypical…and angry at what their party did along these lines. Anyway, Jonathan Chait has a pretty scathing rebuttal to what he sees as the new revisionism. And don't miss his last paragraph.