But 1961 was before all that massive welfare stuff. BTW, my assistant for like 3 years or so has lived in Hawaii for the last two years. She confirms that the wahinis are not liked much. She says it is palpable. She only has a few more months and she’s out of there.
parsy, who wonders why they don’t like us
Because white people (Cook et al and the British) took their land, culture, heritage and innocence from them. They also brought disease and tremendous hardship. It has left the people and the islands dependent on “Benefactors” such as the United States. Hawaii didn’t become a state so much because they wanted to, they did it because they had to, they were that dependent. They are a very proud people and living under these conditions makes them fear what would happen if they were on their own, and that fear, the realization that they are hooked on Federal Government handouts, makes them VERY VERY angry.
Oh and 1961 being before all that welfare stuff? No, that started in 1958 with the strong movement toward Statehood. The reason for becoming a state was money. Hawaii had become a mecca for Asian Immigrants, and they could not afford the influx. They needed help and could not financially sustain the costs of these immigrants. But what are you going to do? Put them into a boat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean? No.
Believe me, it was dollar motivated. By 1960, a year into statehood, the welfare rolls in Hawaii were expanding. There are a lot of reasons the US wanted the territory, Alfred Thayer Mahan’s theories correctly identify the need for refueling stations, and in the pacific, Hawaii is a strategic necessity to US foreign and military policy.
This is a really good article on the pressures inside Hawaii in the Early 70’s when I was still living there:
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1973/11/16/immigration-stirs-hawaiian-anger-pbwbhen-hawaii/