diff --git a/superset/views/core.py b/superset/views/core.py
index 0598c72446..c27dcfb4a6 100755
--- a/superset/views/core.py
+++ b/superset/views/core.py
@@ -2502,8 +2502,13 @@ class Superset(BaseSupersetView):  # pylint: disable=too-many-public-methods
             obj = _deserialize_results_payload(
                 payload, query, cast(bool, results_backend_use_msgpack)
             )
-            columns = [c["name"] for c in obj["columns"]]
-            df = pd.DataFrame.from_records(obj["data"], columns=columns)
+
+            df = pd.DataFrame(
+                data=obj["data"],
+                dtype=object,
+                columns=[c["name"] for c in obj["columns"]],
+            )
+
             logger.info("Using pandas to convert to CSV")
         else:
             logger.info("Running a query to turn into CSV")