Cascading dropdowns in infopath 2010 form

Hi,
I want to create an infopath form with 2 drop downs in it such as one contains (Parent) all the states. Upon selecting one state the other dropdown should get populated by the corresponsing cities.
I have created 2 lists already, states(Parent) and Cities(Child) with a lookup column in the Cities list fetching the statename from the State list.
But not getting exactly how to connect the 2 dropdowns in Infopath 2010.
Any one with any suggestion

Hi spad, you should have both the state and city in the same list. Check out this link:
http://blog.erikvl87.nl/2010/10/how-to-create-a-cascading-drop-down-list-in-sharepoint-2010/
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