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A proper noun or adjective in a hyphenated compound retains the capital:
In general, do not capitalize prefixes or suffixes added to proper nouns:
The President-elect will tour the mid-Atlantic States in an American-made car.
Do not capitalize the second element of a compound if it simply modifies the first or if the hyphenated elements make up a single word:
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