Every state has rural. You'll find the government dependents (democrat once-a-monthers, and grant/endowment liberals) in the cities, but the rural areas have people who work, physically, every day to get by. The farmers could use the extra hands.
Find a farm as far away from the city as you can. If you're willing to work, they'll put you up and feed you. They won't have access to stores either, so they'll need good, honest bodies to help them.
If SHTF, farming itself would drastically change.
No fuel.
How good are you at running one of them high-tech shovel thingies?