Of The Same Stripe Meaning

(idiomatic) Of the same kind; having the same opinion or viewpoint.

Example: 1865 Nov. 23, "The Tribune's Candidates for Mayor and Corporation Counsel," New York Times (retrieved 23 Feb 2013):
  [T]he Tribune . . . may not mislead Union electors by imputing Republicanism to Mr. HECKER. The Tribune takes Mr. O'GORMAN with his secession record—Mr. HECKER is of the same stripe.
1920, Sherwood Anderson, Poor White, ch. 8:
  "Well, it is the same thing over again," he thought bitterly, "like mother, like daughter—they are both of the same stripe."
1922, Irving Bacheller, In the Days of Poor Richard, ch. 8:
  I had no gods to bother me, and my friends were of the same stripe.
1992 March 1, "Viewpoint: A year later" (editorial), Observer-Reporter (Washington, Pennsylvania), p. B4 (retrieved 23 Feb 2013):
  Once having overthrown Saddam, we would have faced two choices: accepting another dictator of the same stripe . . . or getting bogged down trying to administer the place ourselves.
2009 August 10, Joseph L. Galloway, "What the US needs is an outburst of common sense," JuneauEmpire.com (retrieved 23 Feb 2013):
  It is good old unregulated American greed of the same stripe that drove this country into its current economic meltdown.