Johnny you make some good points. I will also say, Crystal, that although people may have been cheering Dillinger and Nelson and the like, but Dillinger and Nelson sure weren't putting food on people's tables with that stolen money.
As for electronics have you seen the movie the Hunger Games? One of the things I love about that movie (I love the books, too, but I'm talking cinematography here) is the way District 12 is portrayed as Depression era rural America and the Capitol is far more like our modern times. I think in a new Depression it would be much like that again - most folks wouldn't have electronics, or wouldn't get upgrades as much, while the elite would have all the fancy new gizmos all the time. I guess it depends on what's causing the Depression, too. If components for electronics are still relatively cheap as they are now, you could have people with smart phones who can't feed their kids.