Day3: if Arkansas is pronounced with a "saw" why does Kansas get pronounced with a sass?

You guessed it! We hit Arkansas today! We began our day in west Tennessee where we saw the home of Casey Jones the engineer of Steam railway days! Then we swung by Graceland... To drive my baby sis crazy and finally ended on the border with Oklahoma which we will visit tomorrow! We passed through three state capitals, Richmond ... Nashville ... Little Rock! We learned that Al Gore's dad was a senator too and saw a nuclear plant in the middle of Arkansas! Big day!! Texas here we come!