Micah is correct.  Hawaii is a remote archipelago with limited resources, but is one of the most desirable places in the world to live in.  Contiguous resources and scale economies do not exist for Hawaii that is ocean locked and severely limited in land area, and where population migration eternally increases.  Locals have no where else to lean away from migration's consequences of diseases, invasive species, $$fat foreign investors, nonresident carpetbaggers, tourist hordes, military handholds, and escalating taxes, except for falling into the ocean (Vegas, etc.) and/or being disenfrancished "in the water."  The flip side of the Continental U.S. Constitution and continental free markets is the Pandora's Box of the Hawaiian Islands.