West Monroe, Louisiana Zip Code (and solitaire score) 72192.

Everybody who watches Reality TV knows West Monroe is where Duck Commander is headquartered.

Anybody who doesn’t know what Duck Commander is, why he’s not a true American.

West Monroe’s 2010 population was 13,065. It’s across the Ouachita River from Monroe, official 2010 population 49,147.

David Norris, Democrat, has been mayor of West Monroe since 1978. Any Louisiana politician holding office that long … Well, Long comes to mind.

About 16 percent of families and 22 percent of the population live below the poverty line. In the U.S., 10 percent to 20 percent of the population is below the poverty line.

Of the poverty rate, Rea Hederman of The Heritage Foundation said:

“The official poverty measure counts only direct monetary income. It considers antipoverty programs such as food stamps, housing assistance, the Earned Income Tax Credit, Medicaid and school lunches, among others, 'in-kind benefits' – and hence not income. So, despite everything these programs do to relieve poverty, they aren't counted as income when Washington measures the poverty rate.”

"Poor poverty yardsticks", Rea S. Hederman, Jr., September 8, 2006, The Heritage Foundation

NBA Hall of Fame member Bill Russell was born in West Monroe, but his father moved the family to California as soon as he could.

Another notable West Monroe native was politician Shady Wall.

Phil Robertson looks like a man who, if necessary, would cut a throat and dump the body somewhere in a swamp where even alligators couldn’t find it.