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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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
In another statement last week, Secretary Bennett announced that six Southern and Border States had yet to comply fully with a 17-year-old court order to desegregate public colleges.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Old Confederacy and the Border States nominated the Republican ticket, and will shape its campaign.
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
At this time there were annual anti-slavery conventions in Baltimore, with prominent Whigs among the officers, and nearly two hundred affiliated societies in the Border States.
From Liberty In The Nineteenth Century by Holland, Frederic May
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