Obama Stokes Lefty Pride In More Ways Than You Think

Barack Obama’s inauguration continues the lefty domination of the White House—after all, five other postwar presidents have been southpaws, too, MSNBC reports. Only about a tenth of the population is left-handed, but that includes a disproportionate number of politicians, athletes, and artists. “From a statistical standpoint, it looks like something’s going on, but what it is, we don’t know,” one professor says.

He theorizes that, because left-handed people have more symmetric brains, “this has given rise to a different way of thinking, a different cognitive style. Maybe this difference provides lefties with a social advantage.” And it’s not just American presidents who have a “social advantage”: Other lefty leaders include Alexander the Great, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Gandhi. (More Barack Obama stories.)