Rorher describes the formation of the North Carolina Women's Political Caucus in 1971 and the election of James Holshauser, the first Republican to be elected governor of North Carolina in the twentieth century. The North Carolina Women's Political Caucus was a bipartisan effort by Republican and Democratic women to get women into official political positions. Here, Rorher explains how she and Martha McKay, a leading North Carolina Democrat, collaborated with other women to organize the caucus. Here, she emphasizes the 1971 meeting at Duke University and explains why the Women's Political Caucus supported the candidacy of Republican James Holshouser for governor. Ultimately, Rorher explains that the Women's Political Caucus brought together women of disparate political backgrounds out of a shared "loyalty to women."