Phillipines Become US State

What if they just keep part of the Philippines and cut the rest loose? Say the Americans keep Luzon, and admit it as one (or two, considering the population size) state, and rid themselves of Mindanao and Visayas? Plausible?
 
What if they just keep part of the Philippines and cut the rest loose? Say the Americans keep Luzon, and admit it as one (or two, considering the population size) state, and rid themselves of Mindanao and Visayas? Plausible?

I guess it would be a too thinly veiled "divide et impera"-concept to be successful in the end. The US would end between all chairs, being asked why the other islands won't get statehood while on the other hand rebellious Luzonians envy the "free islands".
 
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