Due to extremely high levels of unemployment and a sense among the public that not enough was being done by the administration to help those who had fallen on hard times during the economically stagnant first years of the Great Depression.
Most had psychiatric symptoms, these ranged from difficulty sleeping to vivid flashbacks, and are now recognized as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia.