This latest census report confirms the inevitable. Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders are increasingly multiracial compared with a decade ago.

The U.S. Census Bureau reported today that 1.2 million people, or 0.4 percent of all people in the U.S., identified as Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander. Those who identified as Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander as well as another race has grown by 44 percent from 2000 to 2010.

Other highlights from the report:

More than half (52 percent) of the Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone-or-in-combination population lived in just two states, Hawaii (356,000) and California (286,000).

The states with the next largest NHPI populations in 2010 were Washington (70,000), Texas (48,000), Florida (40,000), Utah (37,000), New York (36,000), Nevada (33,000), Oregon (26,000) and Arizona (25,000). Together, these 10 states represented more than three-fourths (78 percent) of the NHPI alone-or-in-combination population in the United States.

Read the full report [pdf].