Post-apocalyptic New Orleans...
“We must admit…that we are …Bourbons.” Baton Rouge Mayor Leon Jastremski, 1882
He said it as though it was a compliment.
Source (PDF).
"I think it wisest not to keep open the sores of war, but to follow the example of those nations who endeavored to obliterate the marks of civil strife, and to commit to oblivion the feelings it engendered." - Robert E Lee