Endangered Species

Trucks are usually meticulously cared after in Maui, and the vehicles certainly serve to project the feelings and personalities of their owners through decals, stickers, and photos.

What does it exactly mean to be local born?  A person born in Hawaii by local parents?  Hawaiian by blood?  Does the sticker insinuate that most residents in Hawaii actually come here from somewhere else?  

I do understand the Hawaiian by blood thing being bred out slowly but surely.