Rockwell’s America never existed for more than a small percentage of the country. Out here in reality we have things like dysfunctional families, warm weather in the winter, and just plain too high a population in the area. Rockwell’s picture are an idealized version of small town snowbelt America, emphasis on the “idealized”.
Nobody has abandoned anything. It’s got nothing to do with multiculturalism, it’s just reality, people in different areas, with different families, and different income levels live in a different version of the world. There is no process, this is the real world, a lot of people work on holidays, a lot of people don’t like their families, a lot of people don’t like to cook, a lot of people go to the places where people are working on the holidays, a lot of people think snow is of the devil, a lot of people think Christmas music sucks. That’s what I’m pointing out to you. This situation is EXACTLY as it has ALWAYS BEEN. The only difference is you finally noticed.
I didn’t get to experience the “no working on holidays” as a child since my dad was a fireman and worked many holidays and our holiday meals tried to accommodate his schedule. And, my mom worked night shift at a bank (when I was in high school)so our family Christmas Eve dinner of Seven Fishes also tried to accommodate her work schedule. In high school and college, I worked part time in food service so I always missed Easter Dinner.
I never shopped on Black Friday because I hate crowds and long lines. Sent my husband once when the kids were little, and afterwards he declared he’d never do it again, lol. My kids all like to shop on Black Friday, it’s a “thing” I guess, lol. They, a couple of them, plan on shopping Thanksgiving night, after dessert, rather than getting up early the next day. As long as they help with clean-up it’s no big deal.
I’ve been fortunate in my adult life to not work on the holidays I consider important and have my family present on those holidays for the most part.
The stores are open because they have customers.