How do you pronounce the name of Iowa’s southern neighbor when you’re in that state? The New York Times is looking at the political implications of pronouncing Missour-ee like a Northerner/urban/younger person or Missou-rah like a Southerner/rural/older person.
Another dimension to the question: Now that Missouri is in the SEC, how do you pronounce the name of the team that lost at home to Vanderbilt and got dumptrucked by Alabama?* Is that going to have a wider impact on state linguistics as a whole?
*Am I enjoying that? Immensely.