You don't see many unemployed doctors and lawyers bumming around, do you? those people should've at least finished HS before starting bitching about lack of jobs.
You know nothing of South Georgia, it's obvious. You know less about the sorts of factories they put there. Do you suppose the Queen's seamstresses were high school grads? The cotton workers? The people in tin shops?
You do not need a high school education to work in a factory. Early in this century, a lot of men went on to become highly trained millworkers as soon as they stepped off the boat from Italy, Ireland, Whales, et al. Stop being such a snob.