Basic Cookie Help

[eluser]Jim Higgins[/eluser]
I'm having a bit of trouble accessing a cookie using the Cookie Helper. After loading the helper of course, should this work?

$this->_state = 'Some State Name';
set_cookie('state_cookie', $this->_state);
echo 'Get cookie = ' . get_cookie('state');

The get cookie returns nothing. I'm not receiving any errors. I stripped everything down to the basics here.