Hawaii with Gambling?

The three great pestulants that afflicted Hawaii were American Missionaries, American Annexation and American Statehood.

I've got to admit that I did not think that the anti-gambling streak was attributed most directly to those missionaries of Maine descent. I fairly lumped them all together with just the Calvinist strain that originated in New England in general.

There were a few attempts during the Kalakaua years to introduce gambling or at least a lottery in order to raise money.

There have been discussions that Hawaii Homelands, or portions there of, could be formed into a reservation-like system, but without the ability for Native Hawaiians running any casinos. A huge amount of the states' wealth already goes to Las Vegas due to the shear amount of Hawaiians that go there each year to gamble.

I've always been of the opinion that casino style gambling was exactly what the economy needed in Hawaii.
 
AFAIK, PCC isn't under Mormon control, not anymore, at least. It's a tourist attraction.

Sorry, I was there back in '99, maybe it's changed, but it was definitely LDS control then. We took a tour (bad idea) there from a timeshare in Waikiki, and the guide made a point about the control: the BYU students, the lack of caffeinated beverages at the buffet.
 
AFAIK, PCC isn't under Mormon control, not anymore, at least. It's a tourist attraction.

The PCC is out in Laie and there are pretty much only Mormons living in that distant (for Oahu) location so the employees and managers are probably mostly Mormons.
 
Google Map "Polynesian Cultural Center". It's right next door to BYU.

Absolutely true. I don't have to use Google Map to know BYU is out there since I lived in Honolulu, but I'm sort of hedging my bets in reply to Defcon that there is some minority non-Mormon working at the Polynesian Cultural Center. There could be one.
 
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