I was able to find out what the issue was, and was able to resolve it by going into the chrome editor (inspect)
(then deleting the 'value' for the first/selected option and thus saving no region as selected)
There was no 'empty' option at the start of the region selection, so it defaulted to United States - I think maybe between the last update and now, but not completely sure.
If the issue comes back, I will let you know.