Border States

The year 1861 closes leaving it clear as noon-day that emancipation in the Border States is a foregone conclusion, and that, reduced to the cotton belt, it can never become a preponderating national influence.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

Certainly, peace was not secured, and ultimately, all but four of the Border States joined their sisters in dissolving their ties with the Union.

Edna Greene Medford: Why did the Peace Conference in Washington fail in its mission? Edna Greene Medford 2011

He felt it was really important that, as the Confederacy, or what we now know as the Confederacy, began to move toward secession, the Border States remained a part of the Union.

Lonnie Bunch: Why was Abraham Lincoln so silent following his election? Lonnie Bunch 2011

Part of his silence was because he was worried about the Border States like Tennessee, Kentucky and Missouri.

Lonnie Bunch: Why was Abraham Lincoln so silent following his election? Lonnie Bunch 2011

That forced the Upper South and Border States into a conflict that they had vainly attempted to avoid.

Q If lINCOLN had LOST THE ELECTION, would there have been a war? Post 2010

I have many friends in Border States and they have given me many examples of the same thing.

Vermont is a Border State Too « worlds in a grain of sand 2010

The Border States and the Upper South, which included Virginia, home to the most enslaved people, accepted the change of administration until the firing on Fort Sumter and Lincoln's call for 75,000 volunteers radically altered the political landscape.

Gary Gallagher: Was the election of Abraham Lincoln a threat to the South? Gary Gallagher 2010

The Border States and the Upper South, which included Virginia, home to the most enslaved people, accepted the change of administration until the firing on Fort Sumter and Lincoln's call for 75,000 volunteers radically altered the political landscape.

Gary Gallagher: Was the election of Abraham Lincoln a threat to the South? Gary Gallagher 2010

IOW, by polling it looks like '08 will be a Republican retreat/disaster in the Northeast, Border States, Southwest, and southern and central Florida.

Novak: 2008 Could Be "Disaster" For GOP 2009

The Border States and Copperhead areas of the states that remained in the Union were either actually or de facto under martial law.

Today’s History Lesson: Lincoln’s Disagreement with Obamaism - Warner_Todd_Huston’s blog - RedState 2009