On 7/8/2015 10:01 AM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Jul 2015 19:22:18 -1000, dsi1
> > wrote:
>
>> On 7/7/2015 4:38 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>>
>>> "Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>> On 7/7/2015 8:53 PM, jmcquown wrote:
>>>>> On 7/7/2015 3:37 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>>>>> Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>>>>>> dsi1 wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> My understanding is that people on the mainland
>>>>>
>>>>> dsi1, please ttop talking about the "mainland" as if Hawaii is not part
>>>>> of the USA. It is. Maybe you should venture out.
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I've always heard of the continental 48 states referred to as
>>>> "mainland". The culture is much different that what we have. How
>>>> would you differentiate? We talk about southern states, left coast,
>>>> northern, etc.
>>>
>>> Agree. Alaska has many differences as well. I had a friend from Hawaii
>>> and she had to learn to adjust to the foods that we had here.
>>
>> What you probably don't know is that eBay won't sell a lot of stuff to
>> Hawaii or Alaska. I have no idea why. We get treated like we're Nigerians!
>
> Don't feel bad, Hawaii's economy is still heavily agri based, can't
> drive into California without passing through the Agri inspection
> stations.
>

Our main source of money is from tourism. Instead of planting cane and
pineapple we plant planned communities. The master plan is to move
people out of Honolulu and into all those plantation areas.