97% Of The Travelers On America's 'Mother Road' Are White

TBI ^ | 3-29-2012 | Gus Lubin

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97% Of The Travelers On America's 'Mother Road' Are White

Gus Lubin
March 29, 2012, 8:06 AM

A big report is out on the importance of Route 66, which John Steinbeck dubbed America's "mother road."

The study by Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, the National Park Service and the American Express Foundation argues for state spending to support this culture and economic institution.

But who enjoys the road from Chicago to Santa Monica?

The socioeconomic profile of the Route 66 traveler is:

1. Overwhelmingly (97 percent) white in race.

2. Overwhelmingly (97 percent) not Hispanic in ethnicity (recall however, the English-only version of the survey).

3. Generally (71 percent) married, though about one-tenth never married and one-seventh are currently divorced/widowed/separated.

4. Overwhelmingly middle-age (median of about 55 years) with a prominent senior contingent (46 percent were 60 years or older) and a younger cohort as well (about one-ninth were 20 to 39 years of age).

5. Generally (61 percent) in a two-member household, though about one seventh were in one-member households and a small share (3 percent) were in large households of five or more members.

6. Typically well educated (about 30 percent have started or finished undergraduate college and an approximately equal share have started/completed graduate work), with some exceptions (about one-eighth have either just attended or graduated high school).

7. Employed in many occupations (about one-fifth are in service, sales, transportation, and maintenance), though the most popular occupation category by far (36 percent) is management and professional (the latter management/professional finding comporting with the typically more advanced educational attainment noted earlier). Of note is that about four-tenths of the Route 66 travelers are retired.

8. Generally of middle-income (median household income of about $62,500), though there is a considerable

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[blam]

Damn White People
(They're the problem with America)

[rightwingintelligentsia]

THE ROAD IS RACIST!!

[freedumb2003]

Sorta perfunctory...

[driftless2]

I don’t know if the road is racist, but parts of it sure need improving. One part in California was really bumpy, although the scenery was great. One of the best sections of the old road is from Kingman,Az. to Flagstaff. My wife and I traveled that section a few years ago, and it it’s tremendous. My wife loved all the old Burma Shave signs that I’d been telling her about for ten years. She grew up in England and never saw them. She didn’t come to this country until the signs were gone.

[MrB]

Well, that settles it.
We’ll have to either block off the road,
or have a quota system where whites can enter the road only after an acceptable number of minorities have used it for the day.

[laweeks]

I suppose that we taxpayers had to pay for this damnably stupid study. Why don’t these colleges use taxpayer money to study why 3/4 of the money send to D.C. to give to the poor, never makes it to the “poor” family?

What a bunch of asshats.

Since “blacks” are only 12% of the population, I predict that if we studied Rt.66 long enough, we’d find that only 12% of the people using this highway are “black.” And you know what that means? 88% of the people using Rt. 66 are not black. I smell racism here!

[Liberty Valance]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Npuab_emQY
Nat King Cole - (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66

[dfwgator]

And 97% of NBA players are black, what’s his point?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Always wanted one.

[spookie]

it was very dangeros in 1942 when my father drove us from Chicago to Los Angeles. The number of cars hat lost control and went over the many miles of cliffs going through the rockies

[listenhillary]

Pretty sure the smugglers take the back roads other than route 66.

[Maverick68]

White Americans are what prevent this country from becoming a hellhole like Zimbabwe.....

[cuban leaf]

The mother road is a racist!

[freedumb2003]

>>Always wanted one.<<

Milner or the car? ;)

[vetvetdoug]

With the current FBI statistics on crime, this information makes Old Route 66 one of the safest roads to travel in the US.

[Lazlo in PA]

I tell you why 97% of people on Rt 66 are white. It is because these vehicles are no good touring at highway speeds out across America.

[BigCinBigD]

But the road it’s self is black...Dosent that count for anything!!!!

[KarlInOhio]

What an immensely pointless study which never had to be done. Let's see who were the chumps who paid for it: The study by Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, the National Park Service and the American Express Foundation. So the taxpayers of New Jersey, which is quite a few states away from Route 66 and bond investors in China shoveled out a lot of the money for it. I hope they got their money's worth.

Is the author of the study now going to analyze drivers along all the streets in the country named after Martin Luther King?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The ‘vette.
They're primitive but cool.

[Tennessee Nana]

Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey,
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Ah yes Rutgers

Named for Rutger, the brother of Teunis Jacobszen Van Woert from Schoenderwoert, in Holland..