Didn’t the Texas town of White Settlement (near Ft. Worth) recently decide to change it’s name because too many people now assumed they were racists?
They had an election a few years ago, and they overwhelmingly voted to keep the name.
On October 14, 2005, City leaders announced a plan to have local voters decide on a possible name change for the town from White Settlement to West Settlement. In the November 8 election, the name change was overwhelmingly rejected by a vote of 2388 to 219.
No, but it was up for a vote. The name of the town is not racist in the generally assumed sense, though. It was the only ‘white’ settlement outside the Fort (Fort Worth) as opposed to all the Indian settlements in that area at the time.