North Carolina has a reputation for going the furthest in the pursuit of a lost cause. The Gettysburg battlefield features a monument carefully placed at the “high watermark of the Confederacy” where the 26th North Carolina came to within ten paces of the Union position in The Angle before being driven back.
That Civil War conflict took place on 11,500 acres of Pennsylvania farmland. North Carolina’s latest battle is being fought stall–to–stall in public bathrooms around the state.