Is Hawai‘i an Occupied State?

[qazplm]

1. No

seems to me when, as that article states when you go to the link, more people are in favor of the status quo than independence, then Hawaii is not an occupied state.

No one is going to be able to argue that we didn't gain Hawaii blatantly against their will. Then again, we took most of our country against someone's will. That's how things were done back then. Doesn't make it right, but if we start re-partitioning the entire world based on someone taking land from someone else, we are going to have a real patchwork of states and entities, and the practicalities of that working are pretty suspect.

The new conflicts it would engender alone make it not worth it.

If a majority of native Hawaiians rise up and say we want independence, that should be considered obviously...but I suspect that's unlikely to happen, because, like Puerto Rico, it's overall more practically beneficial to remain tied to the US than to go it alone.