According to Tung's analysis, the mention of Sanchung conjures up impressions of flooding, overcrowding, squalor and gangs. On the political maps in those early days, Sanchung was considered an oasis of multiparty sentiment, a hallowed ground for democracy. But few knew that Sanchung also contained military dependents 'villages filled with patriotic KMT loyalists.
董俊仁分析，提到三重市，大家的刻板印象就是水患、擁擠、髒亂、幫派角頭等；在早年的政治版圖上，三重也被認定是「黨外」綠洲、民主聖地，但是，鮮少人知道三重市也有忠黨愛國的眷村。