As our good friend and mentor Kartographer is so fond of quoting Star Trek, there is another quote of Star Trek lore that perhaps folks aren't aware of:
There is a word in the Vulcan language: "tviokh". Literally translated it means "neighbor", but the cultural use of the word is something different. Tviokh means that though you occupy the land next to me, I would rather see you under it than on it. In its cultural reference, tviokh really means "outlander", or "alien".
Regrettably, that's how we see the people living close to The Bunker...
In George Stewart novel ‘Earth Abides’ the post-apocalyptic Americans turn tribal. I can see that, in fact in some ways it’s happening already and I see it accelerating as things grow worse.
So we may all soon be members of groups that consider themselves Diné, which means “the people”.
As for me I thought about it last night while watching a episode of ‘Firefly’, I now consider myself a ‘Brown Coat’.