I wonder if this young gal will stick it out; its hard work and she will have to get used to the cold both inside the plant and during the winter in town. What the WP missed and what makes it the sort of ironic "only in America" kind of story is who owns this turkey processing plant in Huron (population less than 20,000, one of the top 10 sized communities in South Dakota). The owners are, at least when the place opened up, the Hutterites.
The Hutterites are German-speaking (at least they all know how to speak their rather old-style isolated German) farming folk who live in "colonies" typically of less than a 100 people. They came to be during the Protestant Reformation in what is now modern Austria and were persecuted for their faith the next 300 years across central and eastern Europe, ending up in Russia before coming to the US with other Germans living under the Tsar in the 1870/1880s. In the next 100+ years, they built successful farming operations where they mix their communal culture with modern ag technology. As about the only farmers in SD that raise turkeys in large numbers, they decided to open a processing plant in the state and save on transporting live birds to Minnesota. To operate the plant, they had to bring in other workers because typically South Dakota has a very low unemployment rate and working in a fast-paced meat packing plant, well, isn't for everybody even if the wages were double.
So, only in America could a people who were long persecuted for their religious faith come, work hard, be successful, and employ other people who come seeking a better life than from where they had been. How many of the turkey plant people will end up staying in Huron? Who knows, but at least its a start...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...=.816fa1b91245
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