West Coast servers (LA) have worse latency than East Coast (DC)

I am on the West Coast and started out on a East Coast server due to a friend playing there. They've since moved on and with transfers I decided to choose a West Coast server to have better ping.

Fast forward and I'm settled on Windsong (LA) and I'm getting rubber banding which I never used to. This makes little sense to me and now I have to wait the 7 days and gamble that my base spot is available and that the next server has better latency.

Has anyone else noticed this? Would the central servers be best for west coast players?