You are so right about the effects of busing. My parents were among those who picked up and moved when they saw the handwriting on the wall. They were early pioneers of the northern suburbs.
We not only left the city, we left the county. Mind you, my parents bought their house in the neighborhood due to the elementary school only a few blocks from where we lived. They then found out because of the idiot federal Judge Sanders, we would be bussed from SE Dallas clear across to W Dallas. Two little six year olds being sent on a bus for over an hour, all in the inane pursuit of ‘diversity’. My dad said ‘He!l no’ and picked us up and left Dallas. Good move.