Here in MA people, are starting to do huge lawn displays at Christmas. One of our traditions is to take the kids on a drive through town on Christmas night. We love going by houses and laughing at the garish displays. We yell out 'tacky alert' (in our closed car, of course)when we see a particularly egregious one.
A few years ago, a man in town had about 100 different lighted displays in his yard, covering all the bases. He had a Creche, snowmen, Santa, Rudolph and all the reindeer, angels, the Peanuts characters, etc., not to mention the lights hanging from his house and several trees in the yard. When you drove near his street, you thought something was on fire because of the glow from the lights. Two weeks before Christmas we had a HUGE snowstorm that dumped about a foot and a half of snow. That man shoveled almost all of that snow out of his yard over the next week, and his yard looked like it had just gotten a dusting of snow!
Richmond is so stuck in the past that all the "colonial" homes only decorate with white lights in the windows. But a few revolutionaries (and I'm building up my own display) go all out.
Now there is an official Tacky Lite Tour List. The media outlets all publicize them and tour companies rent limosines to take people around for the displays.