The question of how Americans understand economic issues has received renewed attention in recent years. In this analysis, I use the voting records of U.S. House members, as quantified through DW-NOMINATE economic ideology scores, as a means of measuring this understanding. By regressing the DW-NOMINATE economic ideology score of each U.S. House representative in the 116th Congress on a variety of social indicators, I find substantial variation in congressional voting patterns on economic issues to be determined by district partisanship. The one exception was the ethnic diversity of the districts of Republican representatives, where it was found that Republicans representing whiter districts had more economically liberal DW-NOMINATE scores than Republicans representing districts that were less white. This finding is consistent with arguments that economic issues are viewed along racial lines to right-wing voters.