cfc bind

I am trying to do a cfselect with bindonload with passing an optional parameter but i can't seem to get it to work, does anyone know if this is even possible or what i'm doing wrong. Any help is very much appreciated.

---------------------user.cfc------------------------------

    <cffunction name="getStates" access="remote" returntype="array">
      <cfargument name="customerState" type="string" required="no">
     
      <cfset var getStateList="">
      <cfset var result=ArrayNew(2)>
      <cfset var i=0>
  
       <!---Get data --->
      <cfquery name="getStateList" datasource="#application.dsn#">
      SELECT DISTINCT state
      FROM tbl_zips
      ORDER BY state
      </cfquery>
     
      <!--- Convert results to array --->
      <cfloop index="i" from="1" to="#getStateList.RecordCount#">
         <cfset result[1]=getStateList.state>
         <cfset result[2]=getStateList.state>
      </cfloop>
  
      <cfif isDefined("arguments.customerState")>
       <cfset ArrayPrepend(result[1][1],#arguments.customerState#)>
       <cfset ArrayPrepend(result[1][2],#arguments.customerState#)>
      </cfif>

          <cfreturn result>

    </cffunction>

==================Form================

<cfform action="test.cfm" method="post">

<table align="center">

    <tr>
     <td>
         <cfif isDefined("customer.state")>
              <cfselect name="state" bind="cfc:cfc.user.getStates({customer.state})" bindonload="true"/>
            <cfelse>
             <cfselect name="state" bind="cfc:cfc.user.getStates()" bindonload="true"/>
            </cfif>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table>
</cfform>