08-01-2015, 01:01 PM
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Originally posted by Kaimana
Hawaiian Citizenry(1890 Census)
Hawaiian Subjects- 48,107(Includes Kanaka Maoli and other ethnicity's that were citizens of the Kingdom)
Hawaii's Population in 1950
498,000
Most of the people in Hawaii at the time of the statehood vote were not Hawaiian Nationals. So really the US voted for statehood, not the nation of Hawaii.
Just wanted to see how accurate your claims...
(though i used the 1960 census, closer to the time of the vote on statehood)
http://www2.census.gov/prod2/statcomp/do...961-02.pdf
(pages 30 and 31)
Indian 472
Japanese 203,455
Chinese 38,197
Filipino 60,070
White 202,230
Black 4,943
Others: 114,405
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Total 607,969 with ~260k (42%) under voting age (p29)
= 350k adults of voting age.
So let's just take 42.7% out of the above number to try to get a representative adult population at the time.
Indian 270
Japanese 116,580
Chinese 21,887
Filipino 34,420
White 115,878
Black 2,832
Others: 65,554
In short, I don't see how you could import that many white ringers from the mainland to change the outcome of a 93% vote when whites made up only 33% of the voting age population at the time.
You can look at the other census if you prefer, but the numbers look worse.
1960 Census (page 31) 202,230 White -vs- 425,599 non white
1950 Census (page 31) 114,793 White -vs- 382,350 non white
1940 Census (page 31) 103,791 White -vs- 319,283 non white