I hate that US states are so commonly in a dropdown/select field -- it is so much easier to just type the 2-letter code into a textbox! (As a web developer, I

I hate that US states are so commonly in a dropdown/select field -- it is so much easier to just type the 2-letter code into a textbox! (As a web developer, I of course totally understand that sometimes you need to ensure the input is the 2-letter code and not the full word or not mis-spelled... but it's not like zip code are dropdowns, and those are often more important than the state in terms of matching up to an existing record in some database somewhere.)