Why did Stevenson win Missouri in 1956?

[Would vote for Hillary Clinton over Joe Biden.]

why didn't ike do better in the deep south?

adlai was a liberal intellectual. Ike was a war hero from modest, non-east coast roots.

Same reason Massachusetts elitist John Kerry still managed to do respectably in Appalachia, they were loyal Democrats.

Yet when JFK came along, that was too much. Stevenson was a liberal intellectual from Illinois, Kennedy was a liberal intellectual from Massachusetts. JFK was just four years later.