Do you consider yourself a (InsertCompassDirectionerHere) of your Country?

[Goodfella]

Spoiler :

My parents and family members are all from California and Nevada but I've lived in a few states spread about which probably makes it harder for it to pin down an accent. The correlation with California is definitely from my family.

 

[Hygro]

I am a Californian, so I would say yes. Moreover I am from Northern California, which is important to California, as North, South, (and perhaps Valley/Sierras), are the main delineations of Californian sub-ethnicities.

Granted there are further sub-groups within these groups (Bay vs Not-Bay in the north, which is further divided into East Bay/South Bay/North Bay/Peninsula; LA vs OC vs SD vs Valley vs etc. in the South), nevertheless the delineation between North and South is one which exists in reality as Northern and Southern California have their own (semi-)distinct regional linguistic variations ("5" or "Highway 5" vs "The 5", for example), and a trip to a Californian university will reveal that these groupings matter to people, even if only in a half-joking/ironic sense.

All of this, adding that the difference between coast and inland is culturally greater even with the Nor-So split getting the attention. When the California Republican Party gets out the vote and uses consumer data to figure out who is a likely swing voter, for example, it has one model set that works for everyone within 15 from the coast, and another for everyone further east.