Is Meeting Southerners Alright?

A progressive group called on Republican National Committee leader Pat Rogers to step down on Friday after emails showed him telling New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez’s staff that meeting with a group of American Indians “dishonored” Gen. George Armstrong Custer
- RNC Official: N.M. Governor ‘Dishonored’ Gen. Custer By Meeting With American Indians

Between this and Mitt Romney's comments about 'Anglo-Saxon heritage', did we wander back into the nineteenth century or something? Serioulsy, who still sees Custer as anything but, at best, a warmongering idiot?

And did Custer ever go anywhere near to New Mexico in the first place? My American geography isn't great, but I'm pretty sure Little Bighorn is a fair bit north of NM...