In the years that followed, the order underwent the same disintegration in the South as elsewhere.
As a class the Southern Grangers did not take an active part in politics.

The overshadowing question of the position of their States in the Union and the desire to preserve white supremacy prevented any great independent movement.

In a few instances, men ran for Congress as Independents or as Greenbackers, and in some cases they were elected; but the Southern farmers were not yet ready to break away from the organization which had delivered them from negro rule.

There was not at that time in the South the same opposition to railroads that prevailed in the West.

The need of railroads was felt so keenly that the practice of baiting them had not become popular.