In spite of the turmoil of Reconstruction, the organization appeared in South Carolina and Mississippi in 1871.

Tennessee.
Missouri, and Kentucky had already been invaded.

During 1872 and 1873, the order spread rapidly in all the States which may be called Southern.
The highest number reached was in the latter part of 1875 when more than 6400 local granges were reported in the States which had seceded; and in Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, and Missouri there were nearly 4000 more.

The total membership in the seceding States was more than 210,000 and including the border States, over 355,000.

Since negroes were not admitted, the proportion of the total white agricultural population in the Grange was perhaps as high in the South as in any other part of the Union.