Farmers in Rebellion: The Rise and Fall of the Southern Farmers Alliance and People's Party in TexasThe years after the Civil War brought struggle to the Southern farmer as the economic mainstay of the South cotton steadily dropped in price. Prompted by hard times, farmers in Lampasas County, Texas, gathered in 1877 to discuss what could be done. From these modest origins emerged the National Farmers Alliance and Industrial Union, later known as the Southern Farmers Alliance, a powerful protest movement that played an important role in the formation