The WWII generation grew up in the depression. Most of them believed the myth that FDR saved the country from the depression.
Most of them? Where?
The myths about FDR were made by propaganda. But, the last time I looked the drift toward socialism is a lot more accomplished in Minn. than here in TX. (My mother grew up on the Iron Range around Hibbing and went to school in Duluth) Generalities seldom are very inclusive.