This provocative article from AOL.com cites a survey done by the Pew Foundation which says at least half of all Americans change religion from what they're raised with. One interesting finding quoted is that roughly ten percent of ALL Americans are ex-Catholics!
But no corresponding figures for what they are now.
Since the majority of pagans I know are actually ex-Catholics...hmmm...and since the article mentions a number of religious affiliations but does not mention paganism...
I am gonna go out on a limb here and say the study was not terribly interested in New Religious Movements.
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Wicca and Paganism are in there, but you have to drill down into the data: Other Faiths -> New Age -> Us.
See Jason's discussion.
Include me as an ex-Catholic turned Pagan.
With small-sample caveats, the majority of Jewish proselytes I know are also ex-Catholics. (I, however, am an ex-Lutheran, at least nominally in that my mother tried her best to get me to be one.)
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