Describe a Stevenson 1956/Ford 1976/Dole 1996/Gore 2000 voter

[Kingpoleon]

... And how they voted in other presidential elections.

[heatcharger]

A Tennesseean who turned Republican after the CRA, and then voted for Gore to support the home-state candidate.

Probably:

1960: Kennedy
1964: Goldwater
1968: Nixon
1972: Nixon
1976: Ford
1980: Reagan
1984: Reagan
1988: Bush
1992: Bush
1996: Dole
2000: Gore

[LLR]

A veteran who was liberal before they went into the service and then prioritized veterans' issues after then

1956: Stevenson
1960: [IN MILITARY]
1964: Johnson
1968: Nixon
1972: Nixon
1976: Ford
1980: Reagan
1984: Reagan
1988: Bush
1992: Perot
1996: Dole
2000: Gore
2004: Kerry
2008: McCain
2012: Romney
2016: Johnson

[Vosem]

A Cold Warrior upset by American inaction in the Suez crisis who votes mostly Republican but is turned off by Bush's seeming isolationism in 2000. A staunch Democrat during the Roosevelt/Truman years who switches in 1952 and thereafter makes two exceptions for the two elections in which the Democrat ran a more interventionist campaign than the Republican (Stevenson '56 and Gore '00). Would probably have been sorely tempted by Carter '76, though. If they're still alive, switched to Bush '04-McCain '08-Romney '12, but voting Hillary in 2016.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Confused.

A Tennesseean who turned Republican after the CRA, and then voted for Gore to support the home-state candidate.

Probably:

1960: Kennedy
1964: Goldwater
1968: Nixon
1972: Nixon
1976: Ford
1980: Reagan
1984: Reagan
1988: Bush
1992: Bush
1996: Dole
2000: Gore

Very few Democrats turned Republican after the CRA.  It wasn't until the 90s that the GOP became the dominant party in the South.  And Ford and Dole were very pro-civil rights, so I doubt very many Dixiecrats would have voted for either of them (especially since their Democrat opponents were both southerners).

[HisGrace]

Someone who likes low energy losers.

But seriously, maybe a liberal Democrat who didn't trust Carter due to the "Southern Democrat" stigma (this was an issue in the campaign) and thought Clinton was corrupt due to stuff like Whitewater and his rumored personal issues at the time. Maybe he blamed him for the Somalia debacle. There are always people who have random reasons for disliking a figure you'd think they'd otherwise like.

A Tennesseean who turned Republican after the CRA, and then voted for Gore to support the home-state candidate.

^that makes sense. I was looking for some kind of regional connection and that's it.