Want to scrape a table data and export it into CSV format

[tahir1990]

Hello
I am trying to scrape a table data using the code below .I am trying to scrape the names of all states of USA .I ve managed to extract all 'a'tags but they include all data within a tags .How can i scrape only the names of USA states?

import bs4
import requests
res = requests.get('https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states')
soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(res.text, 'lxml')
soup.select('a')
for i in soup.select('a'):
	print(i.text)