Not to keep this going, but the US Congress did not entirely follow this line of thinking. Following the war the former Confederate states had to be readmitted, not the most logical result if your argument is that the party could not and never did leave. West Virginia was also created without the consent of the Virginia state legislature (Article IV, Section 3, Paragraph 1), because the consent they gave, secession, is considered to not be a valid option. Even earlier, there was talk amongst New England Federalists of secession when Thomas jefferson became president, and this was amongst men who were contemporaries of the Constitution. Even the Constitution itself dissolved the union under the Articles of Confederation that the Constitutional Convention was supposed to strengthen and there was the very real possibility that the current United States would have begun its life without all 13 member states of the previous union under the Articles of Confederation. The Supreme Court has also reversed its own decisions, segregation was upheld by Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896 before being struck down by in Brown v. Board of Education 1954. How we would respond to a very popular state secession movement today may be very different than how it was handled in the past.
I'm not your sister. I know this because I don't have a brother. And I only surf occasionally with a native Hawaiian, we aren't married.
The SoCal-Hawaii (Hawai'i) connection is a strong one. SoCal'ers vacation there in droves, Hawaiians love to come to OC and San Diego on vacation, and we get each others scene and culture. It's something that someone living in Virginia or Illinois or Massachussetts wouldn't understand, and if you've never been to Hawaii you probably just think it's grass huts and Don Ho sing-a-longs and luau dinner parties. It's not, it's a unique culture and way of life that has nothing to do with the Brady Bunch.
I imagine a lot of East Coasters and Midwesterners here had no idea there is a growing political/cultural movement in Hawaii to declare independence from the USA. Surprise! And a lot of folks there, even if they may not feel strongly enough to leave the union at this point for economic and geopolitical reasons, wish their grandparents hadn't agreed to become the 50th state.
Disney, for their part with Aulani, has tip-toed into this brewing socio-political environment with great care; thus the liberal application of local culture, religion, art and etiquette into the design and operation of Aulani. Disney doesn't go to all that trouble in Hilton Head or Vero Beach, that's for sure. They had to in Hawaii, to gain street cred with the locals and not be seen as carpetbaggers from the mainland like the other big hotel chains are now seen as.
A rethemeing does not really play into whether or not they would consider tearing down the existing resort buildings to replace them with larger buildings that would be either all or at least partially part of the Disney vacation Club (the original point). The popularity of the resort would be why Disney would consider finding a means of increasing capacity and the popularity of the Disney Vacation Club at existing hotels would be why they would want to add such accommodations.
Damn!
