I honestly thought I was reading an article from The Onion. I thought, "there's no way that there is a city called White Settlement."
In frontier days it was one of several settlements in the area, all the rest of which were inhabited by Indians. Everybody including the Indians being much less PC It was simply called the white settlement. Sometime in the early 2000’s somebody got itchy and the town had a vote about changing their name to West settlement. It Failed to pass by about 2000 votes against to 200 in favor.