Given that half my childhood was in California

[liralen]

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The West Your accent is the lowest common denominator of American speech. Unless you're a SoCal surfer, no one thinks you have an accent. And really, you may not even be from the West at all, you could easily be from Florida or one of those big Southern cities like Dallas or Atlanta.
The Midland
Boston
North Central
The Inland North
Philadelphia
The South
The Northeast
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[ross-teneyck.livejournal.com]

Huh. It claimed I have a "midlands" accent; whereas I've been assured that my actual accent is distinctly Pacific Northwest.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

They didn't seem to have a very good representation for "The West", all in all... as I agree with you that the SoCal verus NoCal versus the Pac NW are all quite distinct.