Youcis said she used to feel what she called "white guilt" but no longer. "White Americans have been vilified in the media. We want to stand up for white America — we're the backbone of this country, the white working-class people."



It's certainly been a long, strange trip for Youcis, 26, whose entertaining wail in the stands at the Phillies' ballpark led to write-ups in the early 2010s in the Inquirer and the Daily News, which called her "a fan favorite." The Inquirer said that for Youcis, who was finishing her studies at Temple's Tyler School of Art when she started hawking pistachios for the Phillies' vendor Aramark, "The game is merely the backdrop to her own theater each night."