altercation/vim-colors-solarized — pull request #114 by mala23 (2014-10-16 18:08:20+00:00)
Title: fix order of set background in vimrc

For me it only worked until i swapped these respective lines. I guess the order of the settings in .vimrc does matter and so in my case the background colour got overwritten by the one I had set in iTerm.