Here's the thing about opposing "forced busing"

[dawg day]

51. Thank you re: "forced cake-baking"

What the resistant school districts opposed wasn't "busing". Most of them already bused children here and there, and certainly had been busing black children PAST schools to segregate them. What they resisted was integration. They would have resisted that if there was some magic transporter that whisked children to school.
Busing was just a means to integrate. When it worked, and yes, it worked a lot, it led not just to integration of schools but also integration of districts as families moved closer to their kids' schools. In my own town, in the 1970s, a black family moved into one neighborhood and left when a cross was burned on their lawn. Thirty years later, as the high school became integrated, that very resistant neighborhood now has several non-white families, and there's not much conflict... because everyone's kids go to school together.

Of course, now most of the districts have consolidated high schools == not for integration but just to save money-- and all the students are bused. Almost no one goes to a 'neighborhood school' because they don't exist here. Instead there are big schools with a whole lot of students and a whole lot of courses and activities. It's a mixed blessing, certainly. But this nostalgia for "neighborhood schools" is sort of out of touch with the realities of geography these days.