Some railroad legislation was passed, largely through Granger influence, but it was not yet radical.
Nevertheless the Granger movement was by no means without permanent influence.

It helped to develop class consciousness; it demonstrated that the Western and the Southern farmer had some interests in common; and it also implanted in people's minds the idea that legislation of an economic character was desirable.

Heretofore the Southern farmer, so far as he had thought at all about the relation of the State to industry, had been a believer in _laissez faire_.

Now he began to consider whether legislation might not be the remedy for poverty.

Out of this serious attention to the needs of the farmer other organizations were to arise and to build upon the foundations laid by the Grange.
About 1875 there appeared in Texas and other States local organizations of farmers, known as Farmers' Alliances, and in 1879 a Grand State Alliance was formed in Texas.