Border States

American  

plural noun

1. U.S. History. the Slave States of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri, which refused to secede from the Union in 1860–61.

2. the U.S. states touching the Canadian border.

3. 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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Border States

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

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

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 Solid South plus New York plus all the Border States would be 223 votes.

From Time Magazine Archive

I mean the interest of the extremes, for the Border States certainly cannot have a very deep interest in it.

From A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 by Chittenden, L. E. (Lucius Eugene)