Address book region format

I'm running Snow Leopard in English and I set Language & Text Region Format to United States.
However, when I launch address book, it doesn't display the state field in any of my contacts and default address book format is set to France, which I can't change (if I set it to United States, after quitting and launching address book again it is set back to France).
What is it that I'm missing here?

Address Book preferences > General pref pane > Address Format:
Choose "United States" from the pop-up.

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