benighted vestige of the past(...they, too, are seen as outcasts. It is right to ask if our suspicions of these newcomers will one day be seen as a benighted vestige of the pastTaras)
throwback(a person or thing that is similar to an earlier type: " He's an unappealing throwback to the days of 80s City slickers. " In some ways the new applet technology was a throwback to the old pre-PC days. CALD. In political terms Oryol is also a throwback.BBC. Alexander Demidov)