Need help with Views/Filters

I'm no views expert but have you thought about having just a single view that takes an argument? Something seems bad about duplicating the same view 49 times. Something like:

http://www.example.com/myview/ny

where ny is an argument.

As overflowing pointed out, using a single view that takes an argument is the better way to go.

For example, if you have a URL (perhaps generated by Pathauto) such as http://mysite.com/states/florida, you can filter on just "florida".

From the information you have supplied we dont know how you are handling the "state" - e.g is this a taxonomy term or CCK drop list?

Lets say you are using Taxonomy to build your list of states.

If you do this Drupal will list all nodes in each term automatically (no need for views at all), so you'll get a list of nodes in Florida, North Carolina etc etc.

If you want greater control over the actual CCK fields that make up each entry in those lists, you can 1) create a node specific node.tpl.php file, e.g node-my_cck_type.tpl.php, and modify it so that you print only the fields you want in the teaser section OR 2) use views (hint... use the taxonomy_term view) and use it as a List View and include only the fields you want.

If you take a look at the taxonomy_term view you actually see that it is preconfigured to take the taxonomy term ID as an argument.

Now, if you already have your states as a CCK drop list, you can still go ahead and build a view that takes your state field as an argument in the URL, this screencast explains it quite well - http://www.usingdrupal.com/screencast/screencast-using-views-arguments , with the main difference that (if your states are CCK drop list items) you would use your CCK field as the argument.