[LeoWindhorse]

I can’t believe that because at statehood Hawaii was principally Republican . The shift to Dems came with the rise of R opposition parties , mostly returned Japanese Nessei from serving in WW2 ( in U.S. forces) , establishing and challenging power on the local level . The old school R’s didn’t want much to do with these former plantation lackeys , until after they’d proved themselves in the battles in Europe . These Nesei basically took over , by storm , and deposed all the old boy Repubs . En masse . The offspring of many of these Nesi formed the bureaucratic corps of Hawaii state government and education , and much in business , including banking. Unions are something else , the vestigial dominions of Hawaii organized crime . The Japanese were not really park of that . It’s all such a long story ...

[fieldmarshaldj]

The Dem revolution in HI principally occurred in the 1954 elections when they captured the then-Territorial House, and have never lost it since. The HI Senate soon followed along with the defeat of GOP U.S. Delegate Elizabeth Farrington in 1956 by John Burns.

When the statehood elections were run in 1959, the GOP tried to run a racially-balanced ticket, the Chinese Hiram Fong for the long term, the Japanese Wilfred Tsukiyama for the short term (Senate seats) and Portuguese-American Charles Silva for the House At-Large, but only Fong prevailed (Tsukiyama lost by a narrow 3% to old Haole and ex-Gov. Oren Long. Silva lost in a landslide to Dan Inouye). Had Fong lost in ‘59, the Dems would’ve completed the islands takeover entirely by 1962.

[DiogenesLamp]

Well, I read it on the internet, so It is possible that what I said is not even true. I didn't verify it myself, I simply read what someone whom seemed knowledgeable on the subject, wrote.

Hawaii is certainly Democrat now, so the story made sense to me at the time I read it.

I will now mark that story as suspect till I hear more information one way or the other.