Church a way of life in Dixie
By Jennifer HarperT
HE WASHINGTON TIMES
April 28, 2006

Southern folks seem to have a monopoly on that good old time religion.

The South contains eight of the top 10 states with the most frequent churchgoers in the nation, according to a Gallup Poll analysis of more than 68,000 interviews conducted in the past two years.

"That's no surprise," said Southern historian Eugene Genovese. "Before the Civil War, it'd be hard to say the South was churchgoing, but certainly in the 20th century, churchgoing has remained much stronger here, as has Christian orthodoxy."

It is a close race in the South. story