Full text search, overriding reserved keywords

[James Greene]

I have the following query that fails to work correctly.

SELECT * FROM myTable WHERE MATCH(state) AGAINST('OH' IN BOOLEAN MODE);

This query does not return results.

However, the following query works.
SELECT * FROM myTable WHERE state='OH'; // While this works it still takes too long considering the 1 Million record count in the table

It is only for a few select state abbreivations that I am having this problem.
I am assuming that this is some reserved keyword with mySQL and its disallowing it.
I could rename the state abbreviations that fail or sort by the actual state name instead of the abbreviation, but I would rather find a route that allows me to use the match against on the abbreviations without changing data.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!