What exactly is/was the trenchcoat mafia and does it still exist?

Question

I understand Harris and Klebold were part of this group but did/does it extend beyond Columbine highschool. Is/was this more wide spread than one school?

Answer 1

I don't think it extended beyond Columbine. None of the others were implicated in anyway with the massacre and distanced themselves from Harris and Kleibold. These kids felt like outcasts and identified with the gamers culture.
I think there was some hysteria in the weeks after that the trencoat mafia was nation wide but that was never proven.

Answer 2

The Trenchcoat Mafia

Answer 3

The students from Columbine High School's 'trenchcoat mafia" were an anti-clique, a group of outcasts who met during and after school. They identified with the gamer subculture and sometimes wore trenchcoats.
The perpetrators of the Columbine High School massacre, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, were identified by the media (and by Harris's father in a 911 call on the morning of the attacks) as part of the group in the days immediately following the event. The students in the 'Trenchcoat Mafia' were not implicated in the shootings. One reason the Trenchcoat Mafia became associated with the massacre is that Harris and Klebold wore black leather dusters, a long coat similar to a trenchcoat. The shooters were wearing their black dusters during the massacre. The term 'Trenchcoat Mafia' was used in media reports, and the term stuck in the public memory.
No it does not necessarily exist now.

Answer 4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trenchcoat_Mafia

It was a nickname given to outcasts in schools who wear the black/grey duster trenchcoats, like Kyle Reese in The Terminator. Neo and Trinity in The Matrix and McCloud in Highlander.

Answer 5

I just saw one in full "get-up" walk into a Rutters convenience store just last week.