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>because that’s what was able to be made originally
This is that "fortress America" myth talking, aka revisionist nonsense, promoted by the same idiots who want to shut our borders down and point guns at every foreign country including (and perhaps especially) our allies. As if everything America has ever done, liked, or appreciated must have been of purely indigenous manufacture and we never had any friends all this time.

Early America was heavily dependent on foreign imports, we used foreign sugar, foreign textiles, foreign firearms, foreign blades, etc, etc. Consuming a foreign-made alcoholic beverage would not have been terribly unusual. The Founding Fathers were mostly fluent in French and greatly appreciated French wine. We also manufactured quite a bit of rum from imported raw materials. But revisionists would have us believe that international trade was invented by Barack Hussein Obama.

The reason whiskey became semi-synonymous with belligerent cries of MURICA is because of the complicated politics of the early American tax system which led to an armed revolt in some hillbilly parts of America from backyard still inbreds who were unwilling to carry their weight like the patriotic distilling professionals of New York who had already been paying off our war debts for far longer. Basically, they were asked to chip in, and responded with bullets. So despite what flyovers want you to think, whiskey actually is the drink of treasonous ingrates who hate America.

Real Americans drink wine.