copy tables between db's

I need to copy some tables from one mysql database to another mysql database on the same server. I looked at the php manual and couldn't find it...I found stuff on mysqlhotcopy, but it doesn't look like that will do what I need it to do, or maybe I'm reading the manual wrong. Can someone please show me how to do this? To be specific, it's just a table with a list of US states in it... table name: states fields: state_id, name, abbreviation Thanks, Jeremy