Explanation:: Near the end of the US Civil War, the famous Union General William T. Sherman made a destructive march through the secessionist South, which had rebelled in the hopes of preserving slavery, wherein vast amounts of infrastructure were destroyed. In the modern day, this is often associated with arson, though in reality the destruction was generally more targeted than lighting fires. Wrapping rails from Southern railroads around trees so they couldn’t be retrieved, cutting telegraph lines, blowing up bridges, seizing food and livestock, etc.

Bit Of Tangential Trivia: Gambit, the member of the X-Men speaking here, is Cajun (an ethnic group from the US state of Louisiana) if memory serves.

Before the US Civil War, Sherman actually taught at a military school in Louisiana. When Louisiana joined the secesh, he wept in front of his cadets, and all he could manage to say to them before leaving to join the Union war effort was to tell them “You are all here.” and pointed at his heart.

The secesh started a war that tore hearts apart, for their ‘right’ to continue brutalizing their fellow man.

As someone who has spent way too much time in the gentrified hell of Atlanta, a lot of people would welcome complete destruction again if that would start a complete redesign.