Curtis Porter traveled to Chapel Hill two weekends ago with the intentions of working under the tutelage of John Blake at North Carolina's One-Day camp.

It takes only a couple of minutes for Christina Anderson to convince Paul Davis to register to vote.

"You can carry that metaphor a little too far because it's not as important as religion, but there are these sects and cults," says John Shelton Reed, co-author of "Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina ...