Border States

[Dan Goodman]

> Date:    Tue, 8 Oct 2002 22:46:51 -0700
> From:    Dave Wilton <dave at WILTON.NET>
> Subject: Re: Border states was Re: "quick a feet"
>
> > >>What border is Kentucky on? I lived  there for years, goin' to
> > >>Indiana and Ohio and Tennessee, and Illinois and never needed no
> > >>passport.
> > >
> > >dInIs
> > >
> >
> > I think it's the border between North and South.
>
> Yes, the "border states" are Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and
> Missouri. These were slave states, but voted not to secede from the
> union in 1861.
>
> McCarver is from Tennessee, which is not a border state. Although he
> did play much of his career for St. Louis in Missouri.

I'm fairly sure it _was_ a border state.  I'm certain it was a slave
state.