--- a/app/soc/models/group.py	Sat Dec 06 14:25:24 2008 +0000
+++ b/app/soc/models/group.py	Sat Dec 06 14:44:02 2008 +0000
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@
   #: Required field containing group address state or province.
   #: Group state/province can only be lower ASCII, not UTF-8
   #: text, because, if supplied, it is used as a shipping address.
-  state = db.StringProperty(required=True,
+  state = db.StringProperty(
       verbose_name=ugettext_lazy('State/Province'))
   state.help_text = ugettext_lazy(
       'optional if country/territory does not have states or provinces, '