Politics

Survey finds Christianity on the decline -- even in the South

By Chris Kromm
March 9, 2009 - Christian faith still flourishes in the Bible Belt -- but there, like elsewhere, it's in decline. That's one of the findings of the 2008 American Religious Identification Survey released this week. The study is especially valuable because it tracks trends over time -- previous reports were done in 1990 and 2001 -- and draws on a rich volume of data (in 2008, questionnaires of 54,400 people).

Latinos an emerging force in North Carolina politics

By Guest Blogger
March 6, 2009 - By Tom Jensen On January 1st, 2004 there were8,136 Hispanics registered to vote in North Carolina. Now a little more than five years laterthat number is upto 68,835. That's a more than eightfold increase over that period of time. Still, those 68,835 Hispanic voters represent only a little more than 1% of the