People have been putting bumper stickers on their cars since the 1940s, when a Kansas City screen printer named Forrest P. Gill invented them. Gill got his hands on some adhesive-backed paper and ...

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Los Angeles has reached peak bumper sticker: It’s now common to see cars displaying a rainbow of decals. Today’s stickers often mimic classic formulations from bumper stickers past and declare loyalty ...

My father hated bumper stickers. He thought they looked trashy. I don’t mind them — reading bumper stickers gives me something to think about in traffic. Such as, if your car will really be unmanned ...

Walter Goettlich is a doctoral student in sociology at the University of Kansas. For his thesis, he drove over 10,000 miles on American highways and byways gathering bumper sticker data, conducting ...