Survivors

The survivors were the generation that lived through and survived the Great Plague, though it might also include those who were born in the immediate aftermath of the plague and lived through the economic devastation that followed. Although the term did not originally refer to any specific age range, it became increasingly associated with the older generation as the survivors aged. This was also due to the survivors' habit of calling young people lucky, which created tension between the two generations. By the middle of the 7th century, the term "survivor" was strongly associated with conservatism, and was sometimes used as an insult against people who held conservative values regardless of their age.

The survivors were responsible for the Second Spiritual Revival and this gave them a reputation of being extremely devout and reproachful that persisted into their old age. The Puritan subculture was developed by members of this generation.