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Texas Panhandle evangelists for Route 66 praised a recently completed study quantifying the Mother Road’s nurturing effect on the economy as well as travelers’ collective heart for Americana.

The Rutgers University study, conducted from 2008 to 2011, determined tourists plow $38 million a year into the economies of communities along the celebrated highway running from Chicago to Santa Monica, Calif.

American Express funded the study, which Rutgers researchers carried out in collaboration with the National Park Service Route 66 Corridor Preservation Program and the World Monuments Fund.