Border States
Americanplural noun
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U.S. History. the Slave States of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri, which refused to secede from the Union in 1860–61.
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the U.S. states touching the Canadian border.
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certain countries of central and northern Europe that border on the former Soviet Union and belonged to the Russian Empire: Finland, Poland (prior to 1940), Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
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They are the cornerstone, the bulwark, among which "bolts" and "splits" and outright transitions occur far less frequently than among the eleven Western States, the eleven Eastern States, the four Border States.
From Time Magazine Archive
Despite his comparative obscurity, Agnew will have wide appeal in the crucial Border States and possibly even in the Deep South.
From Time Magazine Archive
The eleven states of the Old Confederacy contain 128 electoral votes and five Border States add 42, for a total of 170.
From Time Magazine Archive
With the West, South and Border States almost solidly for him, he apparently needed only a brace of Eastern States to coast home.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Border States selected their ablest man, the venerable John J. Crittenden, from Mr. Lincoln's native State, to make a public appeal to him to stay his hand.
From Sketch of the life of Abraham Lincoln by Arnold, Isacc Newton
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