I've always liked this image, being in the electric utility business.

I re-studied it, and all I can come up with is that South America seems a lot more to the "East" than North America above it than I remembered from my school days...

Even though I've never been there, I always think of a flight to Brazil as a flight "down" but it is really quite a bit to the East (and not even underneath the US at all).

Oh well, that's my observation....

Randy