You write as though English is not your first language. Are you sure about what you are hearing? What is the "West Coast accent"?
Many people talk faster and more casually/sloppily/slangily in everyday speech with their friends, but slow down and enunciate better when they are reading aloud. That is normal and I suppose might make them sound as though they have a different "accent."
Or, in the case you mentioned, they may have been putting it on deliberately, for fun. How would you know where two random people in a South Carolina library actually came from?
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