I have never heard a Californian bragging about his/her roots.
I mean, really, now, what could they say?
"Oh, I remember those fun filled gay pride parades in San Francisco!"
"As a kid I loved those brush fires in Malibou that showered everything with ashes and soot."
"Boy! Didn't we have fun playing on I-5 jumping from bumper to bumper of cars that had been sitting in the same spot for two hours?"
"It was a lot of fun trying to outrun the mudslides coming down the hills around Simi Vally."
"Earthquakes always opened up some new worlds we kids could explore in the cracks in the earth."
ahem.....Simi doesn't have mudslides.....