I’m in Southern California, and it’s to the point where if I hear someone speaking English with an American accent, I sit up and notice because it’s a rarity. I do still occasionally hear English, but almost always accented. Even the radio ads use announcers with Mexican accents.
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I’m in SoCal too and I know exactly what you mean.
I’ve been here long enough to remember when SoCal was inhabited by Americans.