Will Work For Food In Any Progressive State

New Mexico is not completely out to lunch.
(I miss Humboldt County, CA, though. Re money making, it's behind "the redwood curtain" so transportation can be iffy.)

Re NC politics, I'd be gone if I lived there and could be gone. Life's too short as it is.

I'd invite you to New York, but doubt you'd be able to find work for food.