In New York's Times Square on Friday, population researchers announced America is already a majority multiracial population, with its intermarried couples and mixed households, according to a new survey.

The U.S. Census said America would become a multicultural majority by 2043, but Ethnifacts, population researchers, say the "tipping point" has already happened. 

"We started with what the U.S. Census Bureau said, that we are 37.7 percent multicultural. ... That covers Hispanics, Asians and African-Americans who check that box in the Census. But we knew there was a lot more going on. Our IPI index takes into account intermarriage of people with different races and ethnicities, including non-Hispanic white people, cohabitation in the same way, and then ultimately, living in high density, multicultural environments. If you add those things in, and we did the calculation a few months ago, and to our surprise and almost alarm, because it was coming so fast, all of a sudden we are at 49.999 percent," Guy Garcia, president New Mainstream Initiatives for Ethnifacts, told Latin Post.

Ethnifacts uses the Inter-ethnic Proximity Index (IPI) a proprietary algorithm to measure the changes. Using their index they found multicultural majorities in the following states: Arizona (58.54 percent), California (75.10 percent), District of Columbia (76.06 percent), Florida (57.43 percent), Georgia (58.46 percent), Hawaii (89.61 percent), Maryland (59.22 percent), New Mexico (76.16 percent), Nevada(64.52 percent) and Texas (69.41 percent).

Garcia said technology and social media with its instantaneous speed and global reach is enabling new ways of expressing inter-ethnic communication and community that never existed before.

"That hyper-connected future includes Ambiculturals -- people of color who are retaining the values and flavors of their cultural origins as well as their American sensibilities, and fluidly exploring and advancing the opportunities of both," Garcia said.

In 2010, 9 million people checked multiple boxes on the U.S. Census. They might have checked white, Hispanic or other. Garcia worked with the last U.S. Census chief, Robert Groves, who admitted there was a problem in that the census wasn't capturing how people see themselves. 

Self-identification is starting to shift, with some people saying they are 100 percent American and 100 percent Hispanic or 100 percent Asian and 100 percent American or 100 percent Asian and black and still 100 percent American. Social media has offered a people a way to say they don't fit in a box, they can shift identities and try out identities.

"Thirty percent of all grandparents in the U.S. have a grandchild of a different race or ethnicity, and the diversity in this country is growing in so many ways, we are just starting to really get a grasp of those changes," Garcia said.

"Gay parents, when they adopt, there is a high rate of multicultural adoptions. We have all these new variation and permutations of the American family. It's going to continue to happen, and the highest growth is coming from people of color, but they are mixing and merging and having children with people of every race, and it is going to continue to be that way."

A map of the U.S. states and metro areas that show the changes can be found at America Reimagined, which is accessible through Latino USA's website. Award-winning news anchor and correspondent for PBS and NPR Maria Hinojosa will launch a national documentary series in the fall of 2014 called "America by the Numbers," which will chronicle the changing identities and multicultural majorities in the U.S.

Ethifacts said these multicultural, self-identifying groups are creating a new and different consensus and increasingly determining the outcomes of political elections. The groups' growing purchasing power and influence over the arts, culture and commerce will bring about changes affecting every aspect of contemporary life across the U.S.