On 7/8/2015 3:18 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> 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.


Oooh...sound sort of like bucolic social engineering.

Is it working?