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StrangeMaps has a fantastic graphic by Stephanie Gray outlining the area codes in which Ludacris claims to have hoes in his 2001 hit "Area Codes." He's very popular in the northeast corridor and also select West Coast metropolises, plus a significant swathe of the south. Comments (34)
Has anyone tried to correlate these areas for where Obama or Clinton run stronger ? God, this primary election is warping my mind ! 
Has this been updated to account for all the area code splits and overlays (ha ha) since 2001? And Omaha FTW.
Many of those area codes are farming districts. Possibly Ludacris has an old fashioned meaning for "hoe" in mind.
WTF with all the banging in eastern Nebraska? Eastern Nebraska is all one area code, so it looks like more than it probably is. Though I do have it on good authority that in Nebraska they's all bitches and hoes.
"Ludacris has hoes in the Midway and Wake Islands. Only scientists are allowed to inhabit the Midway Islands, and only military personnel may inhabit the Wake Islands." Ludicrous, indeed.
Possibly Ludacris has an old fashioned meaning for "hoe" in mind. Well, that might justify his rakish attitude toward women.
I guess he's got no love for the Rocky Mountain region? Unless you count Las Vegas.
Technically, Nevada, Miami, and New Orleans shouldn't count. I mean --it's the local industry, dude.
No hoes among us New Englanders, thank the Lord.
Ludacris needs a fifty state strategy.
Now this is the kind of content The Atlantic has been paying for.
James Gary wins the thread.
“There is a ‘ho belt‘ phenomenon nearly synonymous with the ‘Bible Belt’.” I've got nothing to add, I just wanted to bring this to everybody's attention.
I-20 FTW. That Ludacris's local hoes are confined to the 404 can either be taken as a comment on metrosprawl Atlanta's general lack of hoes, or a desire not to pimp where he eats. That said, number portability makes the map problematic: in the age of VOIP and cellphones, the area code is attached to the hoe, and not said hoe's place of residence.
Why is everyone turning a blind eye to the carbon cost of Ludacris' sex life? As he flies from ho to ho, it looks like he's an even greater contributor to global climate change than Al Gore!
You know what I really hope? That Ludacris really did just go through his cell phone and start pulling out area codes as he found them. I grant: the social significance of this is negative, but the image of this as how rap gets written is too funny to shake. Also, what's with Maryland?
Who's Ludacris?
Ludacris, why he's my friend, my comrade in the culture wars. fighting to save humanity from the far left liberals
Fairfield County Connecticut?
"Now this is the kind of content The Atlantic has been paying for. Posted by Al | March 10, 2008 10:00 AM" C'mon, why does Al have the funniest comment in this thread? Step it up people! "Also, what's with Maryland? Posted by jhupp | March 10, 2008 10:39 AM" Yeah, I don't remember all of Maryland being 410. Some of those red shaded parts are Klan country that we always avoided going (even white immigrants and WASPy-looking Jewish kids), so I'm guessing he was just randomly saying numbers. Also, is it me or does Ludacris seem to be the inspiration for Thugnificent on "The Boondocks"?
I wonder at the acceptance of various rappers in the mainstream despite their seemingly habitual criminality. Channel surfing the other night I came across Snoop Dogg telling Larry King what life is all about. Dogg can't enter an airport, hotel or foreign country without getting busted for guns, drugs or other felonious paraphernalia. Is King talking to a "Yeah, I've left those crazy days behind me" celebrity? Nah, Dogg would light a blunt and stroll through security with a Glock in his waistband today if the mood struck. WTF business does he have sitting across from anyone on national television unless it's a jailhouse interview?
Robert, Fairfield County is part of greater NYC, not part of (cultural) New England. We Massholes don't like Fairfield County. They can keep their hoes and be welcome to them.
Visit Oregon -- Ludacris-Ho Free!
pseudonymous in nc, all true. What's funny about metro Atlanta people living OTP (Outside The Perimeter-- the I-285 beltway) will avoid the stigma of the 770 area code by getting the ITP area code, 404. The phone company went ahead and made the more recent 678 area code a regionwide overlay because too many people were seeking a 404 number and not enough a 770 number.
Fairfield County is part of greater NYC, not part of (cultural) New England. We Massholes don't like Fairfield County. They can keep their hoes and be welcome to them. That is a sad betrayal of all those Red Sox fans from the Connecticut suburbs of New York. They may be on top now, but there were some lean decades in the 20th century. I know of one poor unfortunate who, having made the mistake of sharing an apartment with two Mets fans in the mid -1990s, came home from work to find, in a place of honor above the living room mantle, a gigantic framed photograph of Bill Buckner botching the Game Six grounder. The photograph was autographed by Mookie Wilson. Also--I know that, as a non-New Englander, I'm treading on dangerous ground when I enter a discussion of what constitutes "cultural New England." But Darien and the rest of those blue-blood waterfront Connecticut suburbs definitely seem to reflect at least one of the classic New England stereotypes (pastel sweaters draped over Polo shirts as we exit St. Mark's Episcopal Church and head over to The Club for brunch, etc.).
weirdly prescient thread, given what's in the news atm. that IS the kind of content the atlantic should pay for!
What's funny about metro Atlanta people living OTP (Outside The Perimeter-- the I-285 beltway) will avoid the stigma of the 770 area code by getting the ITP area code, 404. Indeedy: I've got friends with 404 cellphone numbers ported from ten-year-old accounts who don't like admitting (or sharing) their 770 landline numbers. As if living in Henry County wasn't bad enough.
It appears that this guy hasn't heard: prostitution is legal everywhere in Nevada (except Las Vegas and Reno). So the whole state should be red. Unless, of course, he just means illegal prostitution -- but then, how does he justify leaving out so many areas? In short, it looks like a (probably successful) ploy to get web hits. Nothing more.
JB, I have great sympathy for Sox fans behind enemy lines, but there is simply no way that Darien, Greenwich, etc., are New England. For one thing, the major metro area they look to is clearly NYC, not Boston; for another, despite common misperceptions, polo-sweater, Muffy-and-Troy leaving the Episcopal church is actually far more a mid-Atlantic phenomenon than New England. Think Hepburn in "The Philadelphia Story." They just vacation on Cape Cod and in Maine and the Berkshires, and try to thereby obtain a fallacious patina of New England rusticity. Fucking colonizers. The native New England elites are typically Congregationalists, and less blatant about their money-grubbing than the Gold Coast Connecticutians. Maybe it's that old Puritan value, shame. Also, you're damn right you're on shaky ground describing New England's cultural boundaries if you are not, in fact, a New Englander.
If Ben Cronin is related in any way to Joe Cronin I think I'd better skedaddle rather than debate the exact physical and cultural dimensions of New England. I know when I'm outclassed. But I've always been surprised at how many folks in western Connecticut are Red Sox fans, despite being much closer to New York than to Boston. That, more than their taste in sweaters, always made me think of western Connecticut as New England, albeit a New England outpost right on the edge of enemy territory.
Fair enough, JB. I think there's something to that view. Certainly the enemy territory part. In theory, Joe and I should go back to the same village of Ballycronin in County Cork, but you know what they say about theories.....
Did Ludacris and Eliot Spitzer ever run into each other?
Did ESPN conduct this poll after asking for the 57th time if you think the Boston Celtics are the favorites to win the NBA Championship?
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WTF with all the banging in eastern Nebraska?
Posted by steve duncan | March 10, 2008 9:22 AM