For more than a century, North Carolina and Southern Virginia were the furniture-making centers of America. Foreign competition from Asia has taken most of that work away — over 60 percent of the jobs have disappeared since 1990. But as The World's Jason Margolis reports, North Carolina isn't done fighting.
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