title: grails countrySelect tag  -  default value
body: <p>The <a href="http://www.grails.org/doc/latest/ref/Tags/countrySelect.html" rel="nofollow">countrySelect tag</a> says it has the following attribute:  </p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>default (optional) - The ISO code of the default country to display if value is not set</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>I removed the value attribute altogether, and still can't get it to display "United States" as the default selection when I do:</p>
  
  <pre><code>  &lt;g:countrySelect name="ship.country" default="usa" /&gt;
  
       or
  
    &lt;g:countrySelect name="ship.country" default="United States" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What am I doing wrong .. what else should I try?  </p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>