Possible Clues:

• Hip and excellent independent island state
• Kanaka Maoli's home
• State of fruit topping one put together
• Pacific US state
• Obama's birth state
• State welcome includes a whiskey — first class!
• Birthplace of the 44th U.S. president
• Only state that shares a time zone with Alaska
• State whose name ends in three vowels
• State that's an archipelago