Today, the pronunciation of route as /raut/ (rhyming with out) is more prevalent in the USA. But the two pronunciations are not equally distributed in the USA. In a study of American dialects , Stephanie Nicole Hedges found that the probability to pronounce route as rhyming with out is 0.5 in New England, New York, and the Mid-Atlantic States ... More @Wikipedia
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