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'''Charlotte''' is a [[liberal]] city, and the largest, in the state of [[North Carolina]], with a population of 687,456 <ref>http://www.city-data.com/city/Charlotte-North-Carolina.html</ref> in 2008.  It is the 18th largest city in the [[United States]].  Since 2009 its mayor has been a Democrat, most recently Democrat Patrick Cannon who resigned in March 2014 after he was arrested on federal charges of corruption.

'''Charlotte''' is a [[liberal]] city, and the largest, in the state of [[North Carolina]], with a population of 687,456 <ref>http://www.city-data.com/city/Charlotte-North-Carolina.html</ref> in 2008.  It is the 18th largest city in the [[United States]].  Since 2009 its mayor has been a Democrat, most recently Democrat Patrick Cannon who resigned in March 2014 after he was arrested on federal charges of corruption.

Charlotte was the site of the [[Democratic National Convention]] in 2012, and will be the site of the [[Republican National Convention]] in 2020.

Charlotte was the site of the [[Democratic National Convention]] in 2012, and was to be the site of the [[Republican National Convention]] in 2020 until North Carolina's Democrat governor cancelled it out of COVID concerns.

Charlotte was founded in 1755, and is nicknamed the "Queen City," a nickname name it shares with [[Buffalo, New York]] and [[Cincinnati]], [[Ohio]], after the wife of [[King George III]].  This did not mean there was a love of empire in the city as during the [[Revolutionary War]], the British Army was driven out of Charlotte.  The British General Cornwallis wrote of Charlotte "There's a rebel behind every bush, it's a veritable nest of hornets", leading to the city's other nickname: The Hornets' Nest.

Charlotte was founded in 1755, and is nicknamed the "Queen City," a nickname name it shares with [[Buffalo, New York]] and [[Cincinnati]], [[Ohio]], after the wife of [[King George III]].  This did not mean there was a love of empire in the city as during the [[Revolutionary War]], the British Army was driven out of Charlotte.  The British General Cornwallis wrote of Charlotte "There's a rebel behind every bush, it's a veritable nest of hornets", leading to the city's other nickname: The Hornets' Nest.