 After her defeat, Rogers and her husband moved to Edmonton.She disapproved of the Social Credit government's move to the right under new premier Ernest Manning, and joined the socialist CCF.Finkel considers this surprising, in light of her long-time devotion to the ideals of social credit, the role the CCF played in her 1940 election defeat, and his assessment that she "seemed more interested in monetary reform than in the general social critique put forward by the CCF."