@Garwboy I love this graph from this WaPo article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/09/22/the-surprising-geography-of-american-left-handedness/
A simple explaination would be that for some reason more left handed people were born. The correct one is that with the removal of the stigma more people admitted they were left handed.
Same today for ADHD, Autism, being Trans, being Homo-/A-/Pan-/Bi-sexual, โฆ