Well you must not be from North Carolina then if your telling the truth which I doubt.
Charlotte is the largest city in the state with just over 800,000 people. No city has over a million in NC.
Charlotte has over 860,000 residents, the Charlotte metropolitan area has almost 2.4 million people, which makes it the 22nd largest in the U.S.
Nobody fears MICS. MICS is a joke. Win your conference before you start talking big