… how are all these people built with the proportions of fantasy dwarves, but scaled up?

… are they all midwesterners?

EDIT:

Well shit, my apologies to the Midwest.

Vermont.

Samuel Douglass, who is here pictured front and center with an apparently cheese -eating grin, was a state senator from Vermont.

I say was, because he just fucking resigned.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5561818-douglass-resigns-young-republican-chat/