My opponents have been bringing up the origin of my family fortune.

(Duchess)

As you may obviously know from my accent, I'm a Southern gal. And, like a lot of Southern gals, my ancestors participated in a silly little war. Well, they didn't actually fight for the Confederacy. Just donated a large amount of money to it.

But yes, my family owned a plantation or two. We do not currently own any plantations. Nobody's planted anything there in a while. They're more like fancy wedding venues for folks that really like Gone With The Wind.

I'm not going to make some states rights excuse for my family's past crimes. Every rich family in Gotham has skeletons in their closet. Mine are just out in the open.

It's not like we were still making much of a profit off of those old places. My great-grandpa sold most of them, and used the money to buy a mine. And later, a railroad company, and later, a trucking company called Shreck Shipping.

And then my grandpa sold off most of our holdings after his bout of insanity, claiming our wealth was "the worst thing to happen to America". When my father had him committed, he was still raving, and spouting nonsense like "We don't need all the money in the world to be happy!"

Anyway, my current wealth comes from Mr. Banks company, and they got their start as Banks Bananas.

Surely that's a legacy you can't put any shame on. Well, besides that former employee that became a banana-themed supervillain and had to be stopped by Batman. Or that little incident in South America.

Other than that I'm in the clear!