Those who settled the Southern States were of a more 'relaxed' view on how they should worship. Considering these and adding in the Spanish, French and others who were already established way before the revoloution, we can pretty much predict them having a less rigid standard of living by the good book.
With Hubby's ancestor line that came through the Massachussetts Bay Colony, there's little wiggle room when one points a finger at them for a 'sin'. Consider the Witch Trials. In many ways, those colonist were as set in their ways, not caring that they may have been as intolerant as those who caused them to migrate to the upper East Coast.
They had no problem owing slave though they were believing they were slaves to a "King" or other royal title when they began thinking of leaving the old country.
That the framers of our laws were of different opinions on faith and what it took to practice ones faith (leaving the mother land) they were not going to touch that subject.
Pam