How nasal is your accent?

I recently ran across this article, and I admit, I was a little confused. I admit that I have a slight nasal accent, but certainly not to the point that is described in the article. Nor have I even noticed such extreme examples as are highlighted. I have always attributed our accent to the constant stuffiness due to season changes and allergies.

I do wonder if part of that is Michigan's isolation from the region. Although we are, of course, at the center of the Great Lakes region, we are not a throughway; no one passes through Michigan on the way to anywhere else, nor do they make a point to come here. Seems difficult to imagine that our language would change with the people around us when we really have little contact with them.

And here's a comment from a know-it-all on a different blog I frequent -

One of the most common examples of this vowel shift is in the pronunciation of Ian and Ann. Young white people in Michigan pronounce Ann like "Ee-yun", and so often think men named Ian from other parts of the country have been given a "woman's name" by their parents.:) Another part of this vowel shift is that many people in cities around the Great Lakes pronounce "bus" the way other Americans say "boss"

Maybe I'm not as young as I like to think (I'm definitely as white as I think), but I have never encountered anyone who had issues with either example given. I hate to have the rest of the nation thinking we sound like a bunch of back-water hicks who can't even pronounce the most basic vowel sounds, when my own anecdotal evidence suggests otherwise.