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
The Old Confederacy and the Border States nominated the Republican ticket, and will shape its campaign.
From Time Magazine Archive
He made a clean sweep of the Midwest, the Mountain and Border States, the West Coast, appeared to have lost only Arizona in the Southwest.
From Time Magazine Archive
The story opens in one of the Border States, where two Northern families had settled only a few years before the exciting questions which immediately preceded organized hostilities were under discussion.
From Brother Against Brother The War on the Border by Optic, Oliver
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