March 11, 2009 -
        
  
        By David Lee Simmons, Georgia Online News Service 
  
      
     
   
  
  
  
  
    
        
          
              
            
            
            
        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). 
  
      
     
   
  
  
  
  
    
        
          
              
            
            
            
        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
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
        
          
              
            
            
            
        March 6, 2009 -
        
  
        Yesterday, South Carolina Sen.