A pair of Princeton sociologists have found that the 'multiracial boom' in America's population was mostly an illusion and did not reflect any shifts in racial or ethnic identity. The US Census Bureau's 2020 tally showed a significant increase in the number of multiracial people and a decrease in the white-only group, but the researchers argue that the changes were likely influenced by a 'lefty' effort to undercount white people. The new methods used by the bureau led to incorrect results, as people who identified as black or white but also wrote in their Latin American or African origins were reclassified as 'multiracial.' The researchers are urging the bureau to abandon using 'origins' to categorize people in future counts.