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To: bentway who wrote (189267)	3/7/2009 10:59:15 PM
From: GraceZ	Respond to of 306849

I think a lot of it is an age thing. The biggest population bulge of white men who got into construction in their teens and twenties are too old and out of shape to be doing the more physical construction jobs. After 45-50 you are either a foreman, owner or a demoted to a helper. Countries to the South of the US (we have a lot of workers coming from Central America now) still have large relatively young populations. My husband is the white guy foreman with a crew of sixty brown guys that all speak Spanish. He keeps telling his guys he'll be gone too as soon as one of them learns how to read a damned blueprint. You don't realize just how "gray" the US has gotten until you go to a country where the population is mostly young people. I was just in Thailand, and it made me realize how much I missed seeing young people around.