Deeply pro Trump town of 11,000 losing 3200 jobs because of Trump policies

[markodochartaigh]

9. "...it

may not be surprising that the population of this town that is dominated by a packing plant has a large non-white population."

You're darn tootin'. I grew up in Amarillo a half century ago. I needed college money and the economy was bad. So I worked at the only job in town which paid more than minimum wage and didn't require college education or connections. I went to work at IBP, a large factory slaughterhouse. Around two thirds of the employees were Southeast Asian refugees, this was in '77. There were two starting groups a week. The US workers, Black or White, would often quit before lunch the first day. Few made it more than a week. I stayed a year and a half. I only know of one US born non-management worker who lasted as long as I did. Fifty years later my crapal tunnel still wakes me up at night.
A lot of people back then had a stronger work ethic, and failing at the slaughterhouse meant having to look for work 350 miles away in Dallas or being resigned to a life of poverty. And still very few US workers could cut it. I doubt if today's generation would fare better.