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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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
Smith would have to carry most of the Border States to be within striking distance.
From Time Magazine Archive
For 25 years before the Civil War no one knew which way the Border States would go if war came.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Solid South plus New York plus all the Border States would be 223 votes.
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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