MUScoop has folks from all around the country, so I'm curious.
When I was growing up in MN, trick or treat was on October 31 and began when it got dark. Dusk.
In Milwaukee, year after year, it pains me that ToT is on the Sunday before Halloween, sometime in the afternoon. Totally bogus. My community has it this Sunday from 4-6pm, when it's hardly dark out. IIRC, this Sunday crap began about 25 years ago, with some bad dude doing bad things that freaked all the wussie parents into thinking no child should, you know, have an authentic Halloween ever again.
Has this brand of stupidity spread to other parts of the country?