A great question Katy, and after doing as you suggest, really thinking about
it, I concluded that it is an extremely loaded one! Perhaps it is too
closely related to issues still relevant today. I made an attempt at
offering some rationale for the phenomenon you mentioned, and then snipped
it myself! Color me chicken.
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Scout
be back later - gotta take a Bertie

"katysails" wrote
Did you ever notice that the great saialors [were] ALL from temperate
climates?
Think about it....