The 1950s were the time of especially violent Cold War with the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was a communist state and the state promoted atheism -sometimes referred to as state atheism. The United States promoted atheism to stress their difference from the Soviet Union.
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C deciding the constitutionality of a state law that requires drivers to wear seatbelts.
The north was more urban, while the south was more rural.
Southern States were free states; Northern states were slave States.