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97% Of The Travelers On America's 'Mother Road' Are White
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| 3-29-2012
| Gus Lubin
Posted on 03/29/2012 7:41:59 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam
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posted on
03/29/2012 7:58:54 AM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(I am ready to serve Jesus on Earth because the GOP failed again)
To: Liberty Valance
I have always loved that song. Sometime back in the early 1950s, an automotive writer named Tom McCahill wrote that the composer, Vincent Youmans, used to race the Super Chief “from Chicago to L.A.” in his Lincoln Continental. Always wished I could try that.
To: blam
I suspect the reason the riders on the road were largely white had to do with money. It’s a luxury, and whites tend to have more disposable income.
Plus, to care about Route 66, you have to love America.
And minorities are taught to hate America.
(For the record, my father, who was an accidental American like myself, having make his home in Israel, toured Route 66 with my mother, his wife, 10 years ago -— because he loved America and wanted to see it.)
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posted on
03/29/2012 7:59:27 AM PDT
by
Jewbacca
(The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
To: blam
Hmmm, second story over the last two days about whitey getting more travel time than the “oppressed classes”.
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posted on
03/29/2012 8:01:06 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: 19th LA Inf
Bobby Troup (from Emergency!, and real life husband of Julie London) wrote the song.
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posted on
03/29/2012 8:01:16 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
To: Jewbacca
Greyhound don’t do Route 66. I suspect the numbers would be pretty similar on US 12 near my home.
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posted on
03/29/2012 8:02:49 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: Jewbacca
My folks did the Route 66 thing for their honeymoon in ‘63 (in a Volkswagon Beetle!)
Thanks to the movie “Cars”, my kiddies think it would be the coolest thing ever to take a Route 66 roadtrip.
After seeing the demographics, looks like a safer trip than the usual Florida vacation!
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posted on
03/29/2012 8:05:26 AM PDT
by
LadyBuck
(In the immortal words of Jean Paul Sartre, 'Au revoir, gopher')
To: 19th LA Inf
Tom McCahill was the real deal.
I recall seeing a film clip of him in a Chrysler Imperial, doing about 110 in a oval race course.
The clip shows him with one hand on the wheel, the other hand holding a lighter to ignite his cigar.
To: dfwgator
Yes, I knew Bobby Troup wrote it. I think Youmans was way before his time. He was more of a Broadway musical type, I believe, and evidently a secret hot-shoe driver too.
To: blam
What about Matin Luther King Blvd?
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posted on
03/29/2012 8:06:49 AM PDT
by
umgud
(No Rats, No Rino's)
To: driftless2
I'm almost 71 years old. I have traveled Route 66 since I was 2 1/2. In the old days one could see where the old wooden road had been discarded along side the new asphalt pavement. Talk about bumpy, no water for the radiator and may-pop tires. Ya really had to WANT to go West.
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posted on
03/29/2012 8:10:27 AM PDT
by
Coldwater Creek
(He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty Psalm 91:)
To: dfwgator
Or 1/2 black. Lots of White mama’s
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posted on
03/29/2012 8:12:20 AM PDT
by
Coldwater Creek
(He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty Psalm 91:)
To: blam
To: blam
****A big report is out on the importance of Route 66****
I’ve been on that road many times. Now, most people take I-44 through Missouri to OKC, then I-40 west.
To: cripplecreek
Don’t forget that minorities are under-represented at national parks, too.
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posted on
03/29/2012 8:20:04 AM PDT
by
VanShuyten
("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Its the mother road, not the brother road.
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posted on
03/29/2012 8:20:17 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: VanShuyten
Seems to me that somebody is working up to a push for taxpayer funded vacations for the poor.
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posted on
03/29/2012 8:21:52 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: Coldwater Creek
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posted on
03/29/2012 8:25:32 AM PDT
by
blam
To: laweeks
I wonder if I could get a government grant to study how much tax money is wasted on useless studies.
To: Right Brother
77% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
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posted on
03/29/2012 8:26:32 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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