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I would have assumed the former but I just don't know, I'm sorry.

The only time I can imagine this would matter is if you have multiple mods that modify the same thing - which sounds like a bad idea in any case! Is that the situation?
 
I think the load order is top to bottom

At least that is what I understood from an old Steam community post