Maybe when the new Little House on the Prairie fabric gets released in November there will be a little spike in country quilts. I guess part of it depends where you live and what your LQS stocks. There are 5 quilt shops within 45 minutes of my house (considered to be a "reasonable driving distance" in Chicagoland). 1 of them only stocks Civil War & 1930's reproduction fabrics (and they just got a few 1950's reproductions in this week). 1 of them mainly stocks blender fabrics so I only go there when I need notions and thread. 2 of them sell very few notions but have the most beautiful batiks and bright modern fabrics you could ever imagine. The last one is a very tiny storefront shop that has a lot of solids & novelty prints.
I'm making a very traditional Irish Chain quilt out of 1930's reproduction fabrics now. My next quilt is an original design that is a modern take on the Irish Chain, but I'm making it entirely by hand with traditional techniques. I also hope to squeeze in a mini-quilt in for Christmastime to give to my mom that will probably be fairly modern. But then by next summer I hope to make a simple patchwork throw that is tied (maybe even yarn-tied!) for myself for picnicking. I guess I just love having all the options available to me. I stick to 100% cotton baby quilts (and a few mini-quilts/home dec for myself & family), but I think there is beauty in all sorts of designs.
Maybe right now the manufacturers are capitalizing on the fact that most people don't own many modern quilting books, patterns and whatnot, so there is lots more profit to be made selling something that is "new". But I just went to my JAF store the other day to pick up some notions and their BOM was super traditional. It was traditional star blocks with an oversized rose print fabric as the feature fabric. If I didn't have so many quilt projects going, I'd snap it up in a minute because they had nearly sold out.