 It can further be speculated that the Mafia was simply emulating, to a certain degree, a more medieval order in which a noble family would more or less serve as the power in a local village, in a sort of inverted hacienda culture.The Calabrian "'Ndrangheta" is, however, purported to be organized along familial lines as "'ndrine".Nevertheless, the term stuck, both in the minds of popular culture as well as the national law enforcement community, and eventually began to be used to describe individual units of not only Sicilian gangsters, but those whose origins lie in other parts of Italy (e.g., the aforementioned "'Ndrangheta", the Neapolitan "Camorra", the Apulian "Sacra Corona Unita", etc.