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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Smith would have to carry most of the Border States to be within striking distance.
From Time Magazine Archive
With the West, South and Border States almost solidly for him, he apparently needed only a brace of Eastern States to coast home.
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
The Solid South plus New York plus all the Border States would be 223 votes.
From Time Magazine Archive
He said this, with exceeding majesty, my boy, and I felt that I was indeed involved in complications with the Border States.
From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 3 by Newell, Robert H.
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