Book chapter
Political Bumper Stickers and Vehicle Class: Are SUVs the Enemy?
Signs of War: From Patriotism to Dissent
01 Jan 2007
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Abstract
Sport utility vehicles (SUVs) have acquired an image problem in recent years (Friedman 2006; Mills 2001; Fletcher 2003). Their fuel inefficiency has come to signify drivers without regard for the environment, especially among those on the left politically. SUV drivers came to symbolize a kind of thoughtless consumption combined with an imagined rightist partisanship. We shared the same prejudice. Thus, we had a hunch that SUVs would carry more pro-war bumper stickers than other types of vehicles. We set out to see whether this hypothesis was correct.
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- Title
- Political Bumper Stickers and Vehicle Class: Are SUVs the Enemy?
- Creators
- David J. KochDouglas V. Porpora - Drexel University
- Contributors
- A M ObajtekKirkwood (Editor)E A Hakanen (Editor)
- Publication Details
- Signs of War: From Patriotism to Dissent
- Publisher
- Springer Nature; BASINGSTOKE
- Number of pages
- 15
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Communication
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000282517900003
- Other Identifier
- 991019170132304721
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