First, You Dogwhistle Bigotry, then You Walk it Back for the General Public

That is what Haley Barbour is doing now.

First, he lauds the white supremacist Citizens Councils, and now he's saying that he was just commenting on the lack of violence in his home town.

He is dog whistling to racists in his putative white house run.

It might not pick up votes in New Hampshire, but it will in South Carolina.