Hawaii has long benefited from a strong military presence and tourist industry. This, like Europe, affords them the ability to run extensive social programs.
The climate is attractive to homeless as is Florida's.
There is also an underlying dislike of whites and the US as we colonized Hawaii.
If it weren't such a strategically located island in the Pacific it would be tempting to cut it loose....but we need it for that reason.
Exactly, seems to be a special case. Supply and demand.
“There is also an underlying dislike of whites and the US as we colonized Hawaii.”
`Dah bruddahs’ like to observe “beat up a haole” day.