• atlasraven31@lemm.ee
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    3 years ago

    Would Hawaii live in peace and prosperity if it were suddenly its own independent state?

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      3 years ago

      It would be up to the people who live there to figure out how to run things. This is certainly not an argument for US to continue occupying them.

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        3 years ago

        how is it an “occupation” when Hawaiians themselves voted to become a state by a 94+% majority?

        On June 27, 1959, a referendum asked residents of Hawaiʻi to vote on the statehood bill; 94.3% voted in favor of statehood and 5.7% opposed it. (source)