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
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
The Old Confederacy and the Border States nominated the Republican ticket, and will shape its campaign.
From Time Magazine Archive
He owed his victory to Illinois, most of the smaller states in the West and Middle West, and particularly to the South and the Border States.
From Time Magazine Archive
A proof: his message to Congress about emancipation in the Border States.
From Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 by De Gurowski, Adam G., count
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