Your dislike of the entire state combined with an inexplicable obsession with New Jersey (particularly South Jersey, which is basically the same thing as where you live in PA) is sort of immature and is blocking you from options that are far easier to pay. Go to a school in state, as I fully intend to.
Snowstalker actually said something of value. You're likely over-thinking this, in all reality, especially considering how you're probably making every possible issue with college political and cultural.