Answer: New Orleans
Step-by-step explanation:
New Orleans is a very vibrant city and has been since its construction such that it was hailed to be the Queen of the South.
This name seems to have been given to it by Thomas Kelah Wharton in his journal about the city in 1862 as he chronicled the events in the city during its golden early years whilst he lived there overseeing the construction of the New Orleans Custom House.