I am not getting why property declare ienumerable?

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public static IEnumerable<SelectListItem> GetStatesList()
        {
            IList<SelectListItem> states = new List<SelectListItem>
            {
                new SelectListItem() {Text="Alabama", Value="AL"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Alaska", Value="AK"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Arizona", Value="AZ"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Arkansas", Value="AR"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="California", Value="CA"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Colorado", Value="CO"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Connecticut", Value="CT"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="District of Columbia", Value="DC"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Delaware", Value="DE"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Florida", Value="FL"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Georgia", Value="GA"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Hawaii", Value="HI"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Idaho", Value="ID"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Illinois", Value="IL"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Indiana", Value="IN"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Iowa", Value="IA"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Kansas", Value="KS"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Kentucky", Value="KY"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Louisiana", Value="LA"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Maine", Value="ME"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Maryland", Value="MD"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Massachusetts", Value="MA"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Michigan", Value="MI"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Minnesota", Value="MN"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Mississippi", Value="MS"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Missouri", Value="MO"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Montana", Value="MT"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Nebraska", Value="NE"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Nevada", Value="NV"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="New Hampshire", Value="NH"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="New Jersey", Value="NJ"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="New Mexico", Value="NM"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="New York", Value="NY"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="North Carolina", Value="NC"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="North Dakota", Value="ND"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Ohio", Value="OH"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Oklahoma", Value="OK"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Oregon", Value="OR"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Pennsylvania", Value="PA"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Rhode Island", Value="RI"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="South Carolina", Value="SC"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="South Dakota", Value="SD"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Tennessee", Value="TN"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Texas", Value="TX"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Utah", Value="UT"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Vermont", Value="VT"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Virginia", Value="VA"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Washington", Value="WA"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="West Virginia", Value="WV"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Wisconsin", Value="WI"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Wyoming", Value="WY"}
            };
            return states;
        }

What I have tried:

trying same but not getinh why declare as ienumerable

Posted 25-Jun-16 8:30am

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Updated 25-Jun-16 21:22pm

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Mehdi Gholam 26-Jun-16 1:46am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-25T21:22:00

One major reason to use this interface is the support the for-in loop syntax.

C#

var collection = GetStatesList();
foreach (SelectListItem item in collection) {
   // use item here
   // the loop will traverse all items in the 
   // collection returned
}

Using an interface reference (say, returning it) is a good thing: this code design abstracts the code using the collection object from a particular collection type; it can be any type implementing the interface. See also: IEnumerable<> Interface (System.Collections.Generic).

This interface is also important for LINQ:
Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) (C#),
LINQ to Objects (C#) (the essential use of IEnumerable<> is explained here).

—SA