James Carville on New Orleans

Great quote about New Orleans:

Cheering the city's post-storm comeback, Matalin said, "James take it over from here because I'm going to start crying. I just find this the most compelling, heartening, optimistic model for the country."

Carville, unmistakably the Louisiana native, noted that in other parts of the country, people are obsessed with their "quality of life," where in New Orleans, "we're obsessed with our way of life."

"We have our own food, we have our own music, we have our own funerals, we have our own social structures, we have our own architecture, we have our own body of literature," he said. "No one ever went to an Ohio restaurant to listen to Oregon music."

From this NOLA.com article.

Found this through Jason Grazulis of BSIComics. He said, "This quote from a TP article this morning hits the nail on the head. Thank you James and Mary."