I haven't read Raines (reviews always made me think his stuff would be a bit depressing), and I'm on the NC end of the Blue Ridge, hours away from central VA, but I believe I read that his dislike of Hoover was mostly because of the way the property for Camp Rapidan, and later for the Shenandoah National Park, was procured. I don't want to start any arguments over the claims of the locals vs the official park service story, and I'm quite sure that many of them didn't own the land they farmed, so had no say-so in the sale, just that Raines' attitude might have been the result of a poor natives vs rich outsiders feud.
-CC