How to get state in magento registration page

let’s assume you are making website for USA,so in magenot registration page,no need to display country dropdown.

You have to show only all USA state in registration page so how to get state in magento registration page in state dropdown

For this you have to get all state collect and bind that in state dropdown.

Code :

$states = Mage::getModel('directory/country')->load('US')->getRegions();

select id="region_id" name="region_id" title="__('State') ?>" class="validate-select”

option value="">echo $this->__('Please Select State')

foreach ($states as $state) {

                   option value=" echo $state->getId();">getName();  

     }

select>