The quibbling about whether or not Freemasons are occult or not fails to take one pretty important factor into account: The Freemasons are divided into a large number of Rites and a vast array of lodges. Some are undoubtedly true to the occult roots of Masonry, some to the political, some to both and some to neither.

As to the poll, what fraction called themselves atheists? If that number is small or absent, that shows the problem in the census. Most people are neither practicing nor strongly believing.