For the last few years, there have been reports from the U.S. Census Bureau claiming that by the year 2043, this country’s majority white population will be in the minority. At that time, Latinos are expected to be the largest ethnic group.

But even before that date, many are noticing that there are already several enclaves of people living in the U.S. who don’t fit the old-school white American model. In this “new normal” and broader American model, the majority population includes immigrants; LGBT people; Blacks from the U.S., Caribbean, Latin America and Africa; Asians; mixed race people; and various other ethnic groups. These are the people depicted in “America by the Numbers With Maria Hinojosa,” a new PBS documentary series that looks at how current-day demographic shifts are affecting the country.

Long-term public media journalist Maria Hinojosa founded a new organization just to be able to produce “America by the Numbers.” The show is dedicated to reporting on the population changes taking place in the United States. Under the auspices of her Harlem-based Futuro Media Group (www.futuromediagroup.org), Hinojosa wants to set the standard for how to tell that story accurately.

“What we are saying is that, you know, it’s not a segment of the population—it’s not a minority group of people. What we are saying is that this is what the future of the country looks like,” Hinojosa explained in an interview. She wants her Futuro Media Group to be a key organization in determining how these changes are properly recorded.

“We just believe that as journalists this is the moment to really dive deep and do serious reporting. This moment in American history, where, frankly, we are living through phenomenal change every single day, we’re leaving an old America behind and creating a new one.”

“America by the Numbers” features shows about places like Clarkston, Ga., a previously 90 percent white city that had been a base for the anti-Black terrorist group the Ku Klux Klan. But after it was designated a refugee resettlement location in the 1980s, Clarkston became 82 percent people of color and today counts residents from more than 40 different nations.

Clarkston’s remaining white population has had to learn to live with diversity. Yet, in an episode about Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, “America by the Numbers” looks at a town that is still more than 94 percent white today even as the rest of the nation is clearly becoming more ethnically diverse. In Long Beach, Calif., the show examines the lives of the nation’s largest Cambodian community and the educational challenges Cambodian-American youth face. There is also an episode about Rochester, N.Y., that looks at why babies born to Latina and Black mothers tend to die at a rate two times higher than the national average.

Rochester’s high infant mortality rate will serve as the subject of an upcoming screening and discussion Hinojosa will host at the Studio Museum in Harlem Dec. 11. Some of the people featured in the “America by the Numbers” episode on Rochester will participate in the discussion and look at how much of an issue this is for Black and Latina women in Harlem. There had been a higher infant mortality problem in Harlem in the past, but recent successes have helped to combat that.

Having the opportunity to put on a screening in a local community and share some of the information found in “America by the Numbers” between Black and Latina women in Rochester and Harlem is part of what Hinojosa says are her plans to extend the shows reporting beyond the television screen.

“What we want to do with this journalism is to help create dialogue,” Hinojosa said when asked if she thinks some Americans won’t particularly like the changing demographics her program is highlighting. “Our numbers are all factual, that’s kind of not disputable—the numbers, they are triple-checked, they are factual. So how do we create conversation? Yeah, I’m sure people are going to be upset by some of the things that they’re seeing. But our intention is not to throw oil on the fire. Our intention is to say, we don’t need to look at this as a fire. We need to look at it as reality, and then talk about how we move forward in this, but not throw fire to create combustion—just for the heck of it. Rather to create combustion in conversation that becomes productive and that somehow leads people to be less afraid.

“Maybe even by having the chance to say on national television, ‘I’m afraid… I don’t kind of like it.’ That allows people to say, ‘Well, at least somebody out there is saying these things, at least we’re naming it.’ So we do want to be sensitive to different opinions because that is part and parcel of who we are as journalists and part and parcel of who we are as a democracy.”

A list of community screenings for “America by the Numbers” can be found at http://www.americabythenumbers.org/episodes/