I don't know if "states" fall into the same consistency rule, but over time when I tab into a State field, I hit the letter N six or seven times (can't remember which off the top of my head), and whether they use NC or North Carolina, I almost always wind up on my state. That is, even if you use acronyms, use the order that's most consistent with what users expect. In my case, I expect to hit NY before NC, even though that's not truly alphabetical. Kind of odd how that turned out, but it's a weird sort of consistency that works.
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