You gotta hand it to South Carolina Democratic Party Chairman Dick Harpootlian, he calls them as he sees them.  Tabella has this post at ELC highlighting Harpootlian’s comments.

“The view in Washington and the Justice Department is the South has not progressed in race relations in the last 40 years,” Harpootlian said. “They’ve got a bunch of 1960s liberals still working in the Justice Department.”

Dick Harpootlian was the county solicitor in the county where I went to law school a couple of decades ago.  He is a top flight trial lawyer and true blue Democrat.  Dick, happy to send you a copy of my book Injustice which deals with this very topic.  Or you can get a free chapter at Injusticeinthedoj.com. 

My only quibble with Harpootlian’s conclusion is that I WISH there were 1960’s liberals working in the voting section.  As I write in Injustice:

The division provides a welcoming home for purveyors of fringe beliefs that are alien and repugnant to mainstream America—namely, that civil rights laws do not protect everyone equally, but only certain “oppressed” minorities. Not everyone who works there subscribes to these views, but nearly everyone who manages the place now does. As a result, the Civil Rights Division has squandered its moral authority. Having initially been infused with the spirit of the original civil rights movement and its emphasis on racial equality and color-blindness, the division is now home to the rotted industry of racial grievance.

At least 1960’s liberals would probably be preferable because they believed in race neutral enforcement of the law, but I think we get your point.