Daniel Payne is a writer living in Richmond, Virginia—a town known variously as the fifth-most dangerous city in the United States (2005) and the happiest city in the country (2014). He publishes regularly at The Federalist, where he is a senior contributor, and his spare time is spent building compost piles and reading Midatlantic colonial history.
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