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.
Example Sentences
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The Solid South plus New York plus all the Border States would be 223 votes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Border States None of the states have carried integration quite so far as the District of Columbia, but the six Border States, on the whole, have made heartening progress.
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
Senator from Kentucky, as the vice-presidential prospect most likely to help the ticket in the Border States and the South.
From Time Magazine Archive
The governors of the States of Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania assure the protection of their respective States to the Union men of the Border States.
From Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 by De Gurowski, Adam G., count
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