re: #25 tradewind

That’s a little disingenuous. Even Hawaii citizens refer to ’ the Mainland’, just as Alaskans refer to ’ the Lower 48’. Sure they are Americans, but their experience is undeniably different.

Different than whose? My experience in San Francisco was very different from my experience in Boston or my experience in North Carolina or my experience in England.

We refer to the South, New England, the Heartland, and lots of other regions too; why is Hawaii different? And what is Hawaii different from?