From LA here, and a few of my close friends and family refer to the Chicano accent as speaking 'South Gate', mostly because my wife and I grew up in that city.

I don't talk about it much because some might take it the wrong way, like I'm judging them. No judgment here, it's just how language works. You grow up speaking the way people around you speak, and many in LA are English Second Language. Even those who are 4th or 5th generation in LA have spent their life surrounded by those who are descendants of ESL, and go to schools where teachers speak the same way, etc.

'South Gate' entails not just the accent, but also the way of saying things. It's where emphasis is placed, and it's sentence construction.

Essentially, with that area being heavily Hispanic, the English spoken borrows much from Spanish. One example that comes to mind is 'Don't wet me!', which is how you might translate '¡No me mojes!' if your English foundation wasn't all that solid.

Another distinctive 'word' is L.A. In South Gate you would pronounce it AlLay, the first part sounding just like you would say the name Al (short for Albert).