[altura]

When I was little, trick or treating was unknown in the South, at least in Texas.

When it first started, my mother was horrified, called it a Yankee custom, couldn't believe parents would let their children threaten people to get a treat.

What we did on Halloween was dress in costumes and "go downtown" and walk up and down to see other people in costumes or else go to parties where people bobbed for apples and so on.

Yes, I am a very, very old person.

[PJ-Comix]

When I was little, trick or treating was unknown in the South, at least in Texas.

True. It wasn't until just after the Spanish-American War that trick or treating became popular in the South.