Last week, North Carolina's newly elected Democratic governor, Roy Cooper, vetoed a bill that would have shielded the state's massive industry pork industry against nuisance lawsuits from residents who live near massive hog operations. As I teased out in this post, the facilities foul air and water and make life miserable for neighbors, mainly in areas with sizeable black and Native American populations. But the North Carolina Republican Party—author of such legislative triumphs as the "bathroom bill" and its "even worse" replacement—has sufficient votes in both chambers of the legislature to override a gubernatorial veto.