answer:Gangsters in Baltimore have different speech patterns from gangsters in Louisiana. There are equally as many different speech patterns and accents from different castes, classes, educational background and regions of NYS. Where does your story take place? Have you given your character from CA. specific characteristics? If not, start there. How old is she? Where did she grow up? Where does she live now” Is she a student, professional, blue collar worker, CA. native or transplant? You are looking for cut-and-dried answers that you will not find. Avoid clichés, My father and uncles grew up in the Bronx. My dad spoke with a regionless accent; my uncles were “dese, dems and dose” guys, as my mother kept telling us.