Working as I do on a very old mainframe/financial system, my youngest co-workers are in their 30's. For some reason, all of the under-50 mainframers I encounter

Working as I do on a very old mainframe/financial system, my youngest co-workers are in their 30's. For some reason, all of the under-50 mainframers I encounter are Hispanic or Indian or Asian while all us older guys (yes, 95% guys) are Caucasian. Could it be the tech schools that churn out mainframers only attract the poor, motivated guys who want the quickest path to a job (that was my own route, BTW). The younger immigrant guys are absolute workhorses and they don't bring their politics and environmental consciousness to work. They are worthy heirs to the code edifice we have built. The old guys don't mess around and worry too much either--we're too busy hacking COBOL and assembler and coveting muscle cars and other toys that we can finally afford. Oh, and we who started in IT in the 1970's and 1980's didn't start out with any guarantees, lifetime jobs, or easy rows to hoe. TwentySomething, keep plugging away on your own behalf and don't identify too strongly with the self-pitying ones in your generation.