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Here in my local whatnot, the preferred pronunciation of whatnot is whaughtnought, while a majority of people say ot, when they really ought to say ought.
Go figger!
Meanwhile, the states of Montana and Wyoming continue to be sparsely populated.
The problem is that the maps just count responses. So a ton of respondents, it appears, come from the Northeast; ergo, every pronunciation appears concentrated in the Northeast.
What they ought to map, by color, is the relative proportion of responses received so far from a given region (state, city, whatnot).
So: Points for neat research idea, marked down for information-poor illustration of results.
Based on the map, people in Nevada don't like syrup.
From personal experience, I find the results highly suspect.
See this map for American pronunciation.