FDR's gotten a free ride for 60 years. Time to shine some light.
Hoover doesn't get a pass either. Smoot-Hawley and the strengthening of the unions were his kids.
The funny thing is my family, except for my now departed Grandpa, who was Finnish at the time, were all southerners. I was interested about the depression when I was fourteen or fifteen when I took honor level economics. They all commented that they hardly noticed the depression, the south had been like that since they could remember.
Looking at some items from the post civil war time period through the 1940s makes it clear why. It is one of the few things James Webb was actually right about. The north had essentially colonized the south and held back any economic progress.