A profound shift away from California's more transient and migrant-dependent past will soon produce the state's first generation of adults whose majority will be native-born, researchers at USC said in a study released Monday.

More than 70% of Californians ages 15 to 24 were born and raised in the state, according to the report, "The New Homegrown Majority in California." By contrast, nearly two-thirds of state residents 45 to 54 years old were born out of state.

The change has far-reaching implications for everything from investment in the public education system to who will buy retiring baby boomers' homes and shoulder the burden of future taxes, said Dowell Myers, one of the study's principal authors.

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