We were building houses in the exploding new suburbs around Denver and there was as much work as we wanted. We'd work from dark to dark, Monday though Saturday.
At the time, all of the construction crews were white men.
Eventually, it was discovered that Mexicans would work for far less and so went white construction workers.
I did my framing time in the late 70’s.
The story was different but it ended the same.
I was smart enough to go back to college and never looked back.
Yep white construction workers weren’t unreliable, they got replaced with cheaper models by the construction companies.
Outsourced, or insourced by illegals, however you want to say it
Nowadays with white/white male hatred stoked to an all time high with corporate and school spomsored DEI BS, they have active policies not to hire them.