It's all right, I'll clarify. There are quite a few reasons Hawaii will never break away from the U.S.
1. Laws of Secession - You need approval in the US government, as well as votes of "yes" from 36 states, and I have yet to think of 36 states that would be happy to let Hawaii break away.
2. Isolation & Protection - Hawaii is extremely isolated out there in the Pacific ocean. That's why they are a stopping point for ships and planes traveling across the Pacific, because it takes a long time to cross, even with today's travel technology. It would be extremely foolhardy for our navy and air force to give up such a strategic area for naval and air force bases. The Chinese would also invade within a week, and Hawaii alone doesn't have the resources to produce its own navy, weapons, fuel, ships, soldiers, ammunition, or airplanes in order to defend itself without the US's help. Last time I checked, none of the islands has the ability to produce any of that stuff.
3. Food - A great deal of Hawaii's food is imported. The islands do not have the land area or fish population required to feed or provide all the nutrients the locals would need to survive without food sent in by the US. One major benefit of being a US state that imports food from the mainland is, the prices are lower. If Hawaii became an independent country, the prices of food would skyrocket, along with import costs. They would starve and be broke within a week.
4. Recognition - Even if they did become an independent nation, many countries would not recognize them as a sovereign nation, and like I said before, someone like China would come in to take them over almost immediately after we pulled our ships and airplanes out.
5. History - according to an eyewitness from 1959 who saw Hawaii becoming a state, she told me she vividly remembers how thousands of Hawaiian school children were asked if they wanted to become American citizens, and every single one wrote letters to the president at the time, asking to become US citizens. It was almost unanimous among everyone living on Hawaii at the time that they wanted the benefits of being American citizens.
Like I said, it's never gonna happen.
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