What would have happened had the Compromise of 1877 never happened?

Then I think, unfortunately, the same effects would've happened a lot less formally. The North, whatever anti-racism it might've dressed in during the Civil War, was getting tired of paying the bill to occupy the South and enforce civil rights. Without PoD's going back into the War, the Federal army is going to withdraw and the racists are going to come back into power, as they had already done pre-1877 in several states.
 
It doesn't have to be that black and white; no pun intended.

If the republicans are actually interested in breaking up the Solid South and ensure thier dominance in national affairs, they would at least enourage black voting in the south and try to get populist-republican alliances that oppose Jim Crow laws.

South Carolina, Georgia, Virginia are goners, but north Carolina, Mississippi could still have some vestiges of Republican strengths. All the Republicans need to do is pare back Reconstruction, not abruptly end it altogether.
 
How do they avoid ending it?

It was already ended in all the states except LA and SC even before the Hayes inauguration. The House of Representatives was controlled by the Democratic Party, who of course would not vote funding for military action in the South. By 1876 the US Army was down to 27,000 men, most of whom were needed out west. Only about 3,000 were left in the South - too few to make much difference.

As the First Lady was to say to a critic of her husband's policy "What was Mr Hayes to do? He had no army".
 

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How do they avoid ending it?

It was already ended in all the states except LA and SC even before the Hayes inauguration. The House of Representatives was controlled by the Democratic Party, who of course would not vote funding for military action in the South. By 1876 the US Army was down to 27,000 men, most of whom were needed out west. Only about 3,000 were left in the South - too few to make much difference.

As the First Lady was to say to a critic of her husband's policy "What was Mr Hayes to do? He had no army".

Large standing army, which would mean very high tariffs (how USA taxed back then), which would cause massive fights over taxes. So basically, it could not happen with major POD to the structure of the USA. One of the POD would be the USA commitment to a large, standing professional Army. The USA having hundreds of thousands of solider in the standing army will cause massive butterflies that will quickly make the USA non-recognizable. With the USA belief in manifest destiny combined with a large standing Army in the ATL, the USA would be starting wars of expansion.
 
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