Trump wins Niihau

[PoliticalJunkie23]

I'm not sure if this has been talked about before, but I found it interesting how Trump won the Hawaiian island if Niihau. There's less than 150 people living there, and it is exclusively Native Hawaiian. He took about 60% of the vote, marking one of his best results of all the precincts in Hawaii. Does anyone have any guesses on why this may be?

[uti2]

Mccain also won the island in '08, while Obama won it in '12. Either the sample size is too small or it's a pocket of traditional blue dog democrats.

[Tintrlvr]

The entire island of Niihau is owned by a pair of reclusive millionaire brothers (the Robinsons), who run the island as a traditional plantation where the locals are more or less serfs. Electoral results there should be seen as reflecting the interests of Keith and Bruce Robinson alone. They are environmentalists but also strongly anti-tax and generally anti-government (both the federal government and the Hawaiian state government).

[PoliticalJunkie23]

The entire island of Niihau is owned by a pair of reclusive millionaire brothers (the Robinsons), who run the island as a traditional plantation where the locals are more or less serfs. Electoral results there should be seen as reflecting the interests of Keith and Bruce Robinson alone. They are environmentalists but also strongly anti-tax and generally anti-government (both the federal government and the Hawaiian state government).

Interesting. I don't know if it's fair to say the locals are practically serfs, as it seems they are just living a traditional Hawaiian lifestyle. Either way, you're probably right that the Robinsons told them to vote Trump. Niihau is a very strange place.

[Bidenworth2020]

this is the the type of precinct that backed inouye 70-30.