Yeah, deep dives like that are tough because you're basically taking the opinions of the most vocal, but that doesn't always represent the majority.
I spent a couple weeks in Hawaii and chopped it up with so native Hawaiians. I didn't get the impression that they didn't want to be part of the US or that they didn't want non-natives on the islands. What I did hear them say is that there was still work to be done to undo some of the wrongs comitted against the natives and that they were happy that they were not part of the contiguous 48 and thus had more of their own culture. It really does feel different there. I loved it. For me, it was like going to one of the Caribbean countries and escaping a lot of the American BS, but not having to deal with some of the inconveniences that come with leaving the country such as different currency, different language, different standard of living, etc... My only problem there was the low number of black people, but a lot of the natives and other pacific islanders I met remind me a lot of black people.
